title: The 1978 Italian mental health law--a personal evaluation: a review.
abstract: "The author discusses the sociopsychiatric consequences of the 1978 Italian mental health law. He also reviews the international scientific ideas that led up to it. The sociopolitical psychiatric views of the late Franco Basaglia, pioneer of the change in the mental health system of the Italian Republic, are described. Statistical reports and critical analyses are reported. Objective data, based on the author's personal experience as a practising psychiatrist in Rome, Italy, from 1969 to 1987, are given."
authors.affiliation: University of York, Heslington.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wilkinson
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Craig
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003688:Deinstitutionalization / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D016896:Treatment Outcome