Book Review
‘The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care’ reviewed by Dr Lisa Dikomitis
‘The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care’ by John Foot (Verso, 2015). Central to this book is an intriguing figure of Italy’s recent history, Franco Basaglia — ‘the man who closed the asylums’— and his movement that eventually led to the Italian Read more…