Books

F. Basaglia, L’istituzione negata, Baldini & Castoldi, Milano, 2013 (ed. orig. 1968)

F. Basaglia, Scritti 1953-1980, Il Saggiatore, Milano

J. Foot, The Man Who Closed the Asylums, Verso, London, 2015 (ed. it. La repubblica dei matti, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2017)

J. Foot, T. Burns, Basaglia's International Legacy: From Asylum to Community, Oxford University Press, Kettering, 2020

E. Goffman, Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates, Penguin, London, 2022 (ed. orig. 1961, ed. it. Asylums. Le istituzioni totali: i meccanismi dell'esclusione e della violenza, Einaudi, Torino, 2010)

M. Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, Vintage, New York, 1988 (ed. orig. 1961, ed. it. Storia della follia nell’età classica, Rizzoli, Milano, 2011)

R. D. Laing, The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness, Penguin, London, 2010 (ed. orig. 1965, ed. it. L’io diviso, Einaudi, Torino, 2010)

Articles

C. Barbui, D. Papola, B. Saracen, “Forty years without mental hospitals in Italy”, International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 31 July 2018, 12:43, doi: 10.1186/s13033-018-0223-1. PMID: 30079100; PMCID: PMC6069799

F. Amaddeo, C. Barbui, M. Tansella. “State of psychiatry in Italy 35 years after psychiatric reform. A critical appraisal of national and local data”, International Review of Psychiatry, August 2012, 24(4), pp. 314-20, doi: 10.3109/09540261.2012.694855. PMID: 22950770