Agenda

The movement to deinstitutionalize the Italian mental health system, which emerged in Italy in the 1960s, saw its most decisive outcomein the approval in 1978 of Law 180—known as the Basaglia Law—and in theprogressive dismantling of psychiatric institutions. From a cultural point of view, this innovation in psychiatric thinking, the treatment of mental illness, and the restoration of subjectivity to institutionalized individuals has produced over the years multiple forms of narrative—professional, fictional, autobiographical, testimonial—in both literary and visual fields.
The Italian case study is at the center of an investigation into the methodologies of analysis of the cultural process and the production of a response that is as aesthetic as it is historical-political, which has been of interest for several years to a multidisciplinary research group involved in the national project “Narration and Care” (Prin 2022).

Main speaker:
Prof. Marina Guglielmi

Scientific director of the event:
Massimo Stella

Event open to researchers, students and anyone interested.