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- Title
Nota introduttiva al testo di Margherita Galeotti "Una psichiatra di campagna".
- Authors
Merini, Alberto
- Abstract
The paper "A country psychiatrist", that anticipates some excerpts of a forthcoming book by Margherita Galeotti, is introduced. The period in which Margherita Galeotti was trained in psychiatry by Alberto Merini in the 1970s and 1980s, when he was the Director of the Service of Community Psychiatry of the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Bologna (Italy), is remembered. Those years were characterized by great enthusiasm because the community mental health movement was just beginning in Italy, and psychiatric hospitals were gradually closed down due to the Italian Law no. 180/1978. Italian psychiatry of the 1970s and 1980s, mostly based on careful attention to the patient/therapist relationship, on team work and on supervisions, is contrasted with the psychiatry practiced today, based mostly on medication; this change is seen also within the social and political transformations of the last fifty years.
- Publication
Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, 2020, Vol 54, Issue 4, p619
- ISSN
0394-2864
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3280/PU2020-004008