Democratic Psychiatry (Italian: Psichiatria Democratica) is an Italian real society,[1] as well as a movement for liberation of the ill and weak from segregation in mental hospitals,[2]: 61 by pushing for the Italian psychiatric reform.[3]: 95 The movement was political in nature but not antipsychiatric in the sense in which this term is usually used in English.[3]: 95 Democratic Psychiatry called for radical changes in the practice and theory of psychiatry and strongly attacked the way society managed mental illness.[3]: 95 The movement was essential in the birth of the reform Basaglia Law of 1978.[3]: 95