Beyond the asylum
Looking back to move forward: The case of the metropolitan area of Turin, Italy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8360972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alessandra Mossa (0009-0007-2477-929X, Politecnico di Torino, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Area (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-0894 • E-ISSN: 1475-4762 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/area.12912 |
| OpenAlex | W4389628285 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 36 |
My research is situated within the literature looking at the processes of deinstitutionalisation of the mental health system through the lived geographies placed in between the walls of the asylum. It addresses mental health geographers' call for a situated knowledge about mental health and, by using the Italian psychiatric experience of the 1960s and 1970s as an example, stresses the importance of looking at care in both spatial and relational terms. Through a geographical understanding of the Italian psychiatric reform, that goes from Franco Basaglia's renowned work to the underrepresented experience of Turin, in northwest Italy, I will examine how space is intertwined with processes of mental health care. Additionally, I assess the role played by the interaction between spatial and relational elements in potentially enabling patients' self‐determination, empowerment and inclusion. The case of Turin—the story of which will be told through the analysis of archival material from a grassroots association called Associazione per la Lotta contro le Malattie Mentali—will serve to expand the common narrative around the Italian lesson and to give resonance to the instrumental role played at the time by both patients and civil society. By looking at the key events that led to the gradual dismantlement of the traditional psychiatric institutions in the metropolitan area of Turin, this paper contributes to the spatial turn in mental health studies, calling upon researchers to look at past achievements as something we still need to learn from and safeguard
Empowerment · Grassroots · Mainstream · Mental health · Mental health care · Metropolitan area · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Situated · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Law · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology
Landscapes of Despair
The Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studies
Disability Incarcerated
Fragile minds, porous selves
Placing precarity
From distributions of deviance to definitions of difference
Across the water
Mad matters
Mental health care reforms in Britain and Italy since 1950
Community-based mental health care in Italy
Interpreting the ‘hidden social geographies’ of mental health
From Asylum to Ghetto
Psychiatric Patients and the Inner City∗
Mental health, ethnography and the body
Homeless people and the city of abstract machines
Rural mental health and social geographies of caring
Spaces of care in the city
Location or dis-location? Towards a conceptualization of people and place in the care-giving experience
Hanging Around in Their Brokenness
Space
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |