Photography and radical psychiatry in Italy in the 1960s. The case of the photobook Morire di Classe (1969)
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Foot, John. (2015). Photography and radical psychiatry in Italy in the 1960s. The case of the photobook Morire di Classe (1969). History of Psychiatry. 26(1), pp. 19 - 35. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X14550136
Authors | Foot, John |
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Abstract | In the 1960s Franco Basaglia, the Director of a Psychiatric Hospital in a small city on the edge of Italy (Gorizia), began to transform that institution from the inside. He introduced patient meetings and set up a kind of Therapeutic Community. In 1968 he asked two photographers – Carla Cerati and Gianni Berengo Gardin – to take photos inside Gorizia and other asylums. These images were then used in a photobook called Morire di Classe (To Die Because of your Class) (1969). This article re-examines in detail the content of this celebrated book and its history, and its impact on the struggle to reform and abolish large-scale psychiatric institutions. It also places the book in its social and political context and as a key text of the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s. |
Keywords | antipsychiatry; Franco Basaglia; Italy; photography; psychiatric reforms |
Year | 2015 |
Journal | History of Psychiatry |
Journal citation | 26 (1), pp. 19 - 35 |
Publisher | Sage Publications Ltd. |
ISSN | 0957-154X |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X14550136 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-84923337182 |
Page range | 19 - 35 |
Research Group | School of Arts |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
Place of publication | United States |
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