Psychiatry in Genoa.
The most important lines in the history of Genoese psychiatry are presented. Eight milestones can be identified: (1) the construction of the first madhouse in 1841; (2) the continual increase from that period in the number of in-patients, and the lack of adequate accommodation; (3) the beginning of the teaching of psychiatry at the University of Genoa; (4) the stormy debate on the construction of a great madhouse near Cogoleto; (5) the opening of the madhouse at Quarto and the discussion on its enlargement; (6) the attempts to introduce the non-restraint system at the beginning of nineteenth century; (7) the writing of Camillo Tomei and the work of Luigi Maria Bossi against the abuse of psychiatry; (8) the awakening, beginning in the late 1960s, of interest in psychiatry, the closure of the old Italian asylums, and the birth of community psychiatry in 1978.
Peloso
Paolo Francesco
PF
Intalian Society of Psychiatry. chiclana@fastwebnet.it
D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D007558:Italy; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*