Franco Basaglia

Franco Basaglia
Born(1924-03-11)11 March 1924
San Polo, Venice, Italy
Died29 August 1980(1980-08-29) (aged 56)
San Polo, Venice, Italy
Alma materUniversity of Padua
Known forCreating Democratic Psychiatry and Basaglia Law, initiating Italian psychiatric reform
Scientific career
FieldsPsychiatry
InstitutionsUniversity of Padua, University of Parma, mental hospitals in Padua, Gorizia, Parma, Trieste, Arezzo, mental service in Lazio

Franco Basaglia (Italian: [ˈfraŋko baˈzaʎʎa]; 11 March 1924  – 29 August 1980) was an Italian psychiatrist,[1][2] neurologist,[3]: 32  and professor,[4]: 123 [5]: 183  who proposed the dismantling of psychiatric hospitals, pioneer of the modern concept of mental health,[1][6] Italian psychiatry reformer,[7]: 213  figurehead and founder of Democratic Psychiatry,[8]: 165 [9]: 126  architect,[10]: 8  and principal proponent of Law 180,[11]: 70  which abolished mental hospitals in Italy. He is considered to be the most influential Italian psychiatrist of the 20th century.[2]

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