AimsTo examine the extent and nature of coercive practices in mental healthcare and to
consider the ethical, human rights challenges facing the current clinical practices in this …

Abstract Since Franco Basaglia's appointment in 1971 as director of the former San
Giovanni mental hospital, Trieste has played an international benchmark role in community …

Aim. Italy pioneered deinstitutionalisation over the past 60 years and enforced a famous
mental health (MH) reform law in 1978. Deinstitutionalisation has been completed with the …

Purpose This study aims to demonstrate how service providers, service users and their
families should be able to share the co-leadership, co-auspicing, co-ownership, and co …

While mental health recovery is a very personal process, the approach also offers
possibilities as a metaframework for improving quality of services to support people with …

Aims. Important transformations in psychiatric healthcare (HC) delivery have been
implemented in Latin America during the beginning of 21st century. However, information on …

Abstract According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the “Trieste model” of public
psychiatry is one of the most progressive in the world. It was in Trieste, Italy, in the 1970s that …

Mental health services have changed over the past decades through an increased
emphasis on deinstitutionalization and normalization, and with recovery processes situated …

Reports from around the world highlight the need to address discrimination and promote
human rights in mental health care settings. This includes eliminating the use of coercive …

How things are perceived from a distance may help better understand their nature.
Perceptions at home are likely to shape perceptions abroad. The mutual cross-references …