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	'''''I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by distress but by the content of their character.'''''		'''''I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by their distress but by the content of their character.'''''

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	== What is the problem here ? Why global change is needed ==		== What is the problem here ? Why global change is needed ==

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			[[File:Dr Roberto Mezzina Imagine Inverness Seminar - the biggest human rights issue.mp4\|none\|thumb\|The biggest human rights issue - Dr Roberto Mezzina [https://joshiproject.org/from-our-imagine-inverness-seminar-2022/ Imagine Inverness Seminar].]]



	Many countries have already made or are making the change but in many others, especially the UK and USA and other rich, industrialised, technologised nations its as if this human rights issue simply does not exist. It does not have the same "sexy" profile as racism or anti-semetism, womens rights and other human rights campaigns. The person who best explains the problem in clear, truthful terms is [[wikipedia:Franco_Basaglia\|Franco Basaglia]] ...<blockquote>''"The microcosm that Basaglia and his colleagues saw in Gorizia was that of the asylum, of the manicomio, as a microsocial architectural space that reproduced perversions in human relationships which were not only countertherapeutic, but iatrogenic, creating an illness specific to itself."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 11.</small><blockquote>''The manicomio, wrote Basaglia in this period, was "an enormous shell filled with bodies that cannot experience themselves and who sit there, , waiting for someone to seize them and make them live as they see fit—that is, as schizophrenics, manic-depressives, hysterics, finally trans formed into things."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small><blockquote>''“Within its four walls, the pulse of history ceases to beat, the social identity of the individual contained therein is suppressed, and the process of total identification of the individual with its psychic dimensions takes place. The conditions of his life maybe offered as proof of his innate inferiority, his culture disregarded as the expression of his irrational deviation. The silence which sets in, in the asylum, becomes both typical of it and guarantees that, from it, no other message will reach the outside world."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>		Many countries have already made or are making the change but in many others, especially the UK and USA and other rich, industrialised, technologised nations its as if this human rights issue simply does not exist. It does not have the same "sexy" profile as racism or anti-semetism, womens rights and other human rights campaigns. The person who best explains the problem in clear, truthful terms is [[wikipedia:Franco_Basaglia\|Franco Basaglia]] ...<blockquote>''"The microcosm that Basaglia and his colleagues saw in Gorizia was that of the asylum, of the manicomio, as a microsocial architectural space that reproduced perversions in human relationships which were not only countertherapeutic, but iatrogenic, creating an illness specific to itself."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 11.</small><blockquote>''The manicomio, wrote Basaglia in this period, was "an enormous shell filled with bodies that cannot experience themselves and who sit there, , waiting for someone to seize them and make them live as they see fit—that is, as schizophrenics, manic-depressives, hysterics, finally trans formed into things."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small><blockquote>''“Within its four walls, the pulse of history ceases to beat, the social identity of the individual contained therein is suppressed, and the process of total identification of the individual with its psychic dimensions takes place. The conditions of his life maybe offered as proof of his innate inferiority, his culture disregarded as the expression of his irrational deviation. The silence which sets in, in the asylum, becomes both typical of it and guarantees that, from it, no other message will reach the outside world."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>

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	''"In Basaglia's terms this means an empowerment through words, an understanding that even delusional or delirious speech may be a febrile voice of protest, the only possible resistance available to those who are usually silenced, disgraced, and excluded''."		''"In Basaglia's terms this means an empowerment through words, an understanding that even delusional or delirious speech may be a febrile voice of protest, the only possible resistance available to those who are usually silenced, disgraced, and excluded''."

	<small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press, ~~p48~~.</small>		<small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>


			Then in a typically derogatory fashion, a detached elite voice of Western (UK/USA) reductionist Scientism comes into play. This psuedo approach postures as ultimately rationalistic and beyond question ...

			''"To what extent the Basaglian program and ideology can be exported or imitated in other contexts is debatable, in so far as the Italian experiment—where it succeeded—did so exactly because it was able to articulate with the vernacular culture, with the anti-authoritarian and communitarian ethos of large segments of the Italian working and professional classes, at a particular historical moment."''

			<small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>


			When in fact the common application of the Basaglian/Trieste approach is betrayed by; "''vernacular culture",'' vernacular: the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. What country in the world does not have ordinary people in regions, such as Scotland ? "''Anti-authoritarian",'' many countries have long history's and cultures of anti-authoritarian, think of Punks in the UK or Hell's Angel bikers in the USA. "''Communitarian ethos",'' all countries where there are people have that. So "''debatable''" is an avoidance of doing the hard work by constantly seeking some "perfect" halcyon solution. ''New flash !'' There's not one ! Life is always messy and imperfect. The challenge is overcoming that to make progress. Basaglia and his Trieste colleagues have already done the heavy lifting to show how to work hard at the right thing that will really achieve success.

	== Paradigm Shift ==		== Paradigm Shift ==

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	Many countries have already made or are making the change but in many others, especially the UK and USA and other rich, industrialised, technologised nations its as if this human rights issue simply does not exist. It does not have the same "sexy" profile as racism or anti-semetism, womens rights and other human rights campaigns. The person who best explains the problem in clear, truthful terms is [[wikipedia:Franco_Basaglia\|Franco Basaglia]] ...<blockquote>''"The microcosm that Basaglia and his colleagues saw in Gorizia was that of the asylum, of the manicomio, as a microsocial architectural space that reproduced perversions in human relationships which were not only countertherapeutic, but iatrogenic, creating an illness specific to itself."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 11.</small><blockquote>''The manicomio, wrote Basaglia in this period, was "an enormous shell filled with bodies that cannot experience themselves and who sit there, , waiting for someone to seize them and make them live as they see fit—that is, as schizophrenics, manic-depressives, hysterics, finally trans formed into things."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small><blockquote>''“Within its four walls, the pulse of history ceases to beat, the social identity of the individual contained therein is suppressed, and the process of total identification of the individual with its psychic dimensions takes place. The conditions of his life maybe offered as proof of his innate inferiority, his culture disregarded as the expression of his irrational deviation. The silence which sets in, in the asylum, becomes both typical of it and guarantees that, from it, no other message will reach the outside world."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>		Many countries have already made or are making the change but in many others, especially the UK and USA and other rich, industrialised, technologised nations its as if this human rights issue simply does not exist. It does not have the same "sexy" profile as racism or anti-semetism, womens rights and other human rights campaigns. The person who best explains the problem in clear, truthful terms is [[wikipedia:Franco_Basaglia\|Franco Basaglia]] ...<blockquote>''"The microcosm that Basaglia and his colleagues saw in Gorizia was that of the asylum, of the manicomio, as a microsocial architectural space that reproduced perversions in human relationships which were not only countertherapeutic, but iatrogenic, creating an illness specific to itself."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 11.</small><blockquote>''The manicomio, wrote Basaglia in this period, was "an enormous shell filled with bodies that cannot experience themselves and who sit there, , waiting for someone to seize them and make them live as they see fit—that is, as schizophrenics, manic-depressives, hysterics, finally trans formed into things."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small><blockquote>''“Within its four walls, the pulse of history ceases to beat, the social identity of the individual contained therein is suppressed, and the process of total identification of the individual with its psychic dimensions takes place. The conditions of his life maybe offered as proof of his innate inferiority, his culture disregarded as the expression of his irrational deviation. The silence which sets in, in the asylum, becomes both typical of it and guarantees that, from it, no other message will reach the outside world."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>


	QED. Problem defined. The modern "asylum" no longer takes place excusively within physical walls but by using modern drugs combined with ECT that essentially seal those people within their "''bodies that cannot experience themselves"'' as Basaglia puts it. Then Basaglia hits the nail on the head ... "''The silence which sets in, in the asylum, becomes both typical of it and guarantees that, from it, <u>no other message will reach the outside world</u>.".'' Hence why this is almost an unknown human rights issue on the world stage, in the media and in every day conversation. This is the problem. The solution ? To create life, knowledge and awareness where there was none in order to produce a completely new but social and human way of dealing with people in distress. For example something like this ...<blockquote>''"A patient who had left the hospital had seriously perturbed the life of the town. He argued with everyone, he would not stop fighting, he went so far as to threaten some people with death. Faced with this situation, the townspeople demanded that he be returned to the hospital, but the psychiatrists refused. With the mayor, they came up with the idea of calling a meeting [assembled], which would be open to everyone, to try to understand, along with the townspeople, what had happened and to search with them for a solution. Given the seriousness of the incidents and their timeliness, a considerable number of people, 1,300, attended . . . their resistances were strong, the discussion rowdy, but eventually the proposition was made that the patient could stay in the village but was to be accompanied by a nurse, at least at first."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>		QED. Problem defined. The modern "asylum" no longer takes place excusively within physical walls but by using modern drugs combined with ECT that essentially seal those people within their "''bodies that cannot experience themselves"'' as Basaglia puts it. Then Basaglia hits the nail on the head ... "''The silence which sets in, in the asylum, becomes both typical of it and guarantees that, from it, <u>no other message will reach the outside world</u>.".'' Hence why this is almost an unknown human rights issue on the world stage, in the media and in every day conversation. This is the problem. The solution ? To create life, knowledge and awareness where there was none in order to produce a completely new but social and human way of dealing with people in distress. For example something like this ...<blockquote>''"A patient who had left the hospital had seriously perturbed the life of the town. He argued with everyone, he would not stop fighting, he went so far as to threaten some people with death. Faced with this situation, the townspeople demanded that he be returned to the hospital, but the psychiatrists refused. With the mayor, they came up with the idea of calling a meeting [assembled], which would be open to everyone, to try to understand, along with the townspeople, what had happened and to search with them for a solution. Given the seriousness of the incidents and their timeliness, a considerable number of people, 1,300, attended . . . their resistances were strong, the discussion rowdy, but eventually the proposition was made that the patient could stay in the village but was to be accompanied by a nurse, at least at first."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>
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	The Trieste/Italian practice went much further by repairing the relationships the artificial boundaries had damaged, both individually and in the society ... <blockquote>''"But for citizens to come inside [the asylum], there had to be strong inducements: film festivals, shows, plays by traveling repertory companies, or performances by musicians, actors, and artists. Once they mingled among the patients, the townspeople could begin to recognize in the distress and suffering of former inmates some of the same problems in living that had plagued their own lives."'' </blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>		The Trieste/Italian practice went much further by repairing the relationships the artificial boundaries had damaged, both individually and in the society ... <blockquote>''"But for citizens to come inside [the asylum], there had to be strong inducements: film festivals, shows, plays by traveling repertory companies, or performances by musicians, actors, and artists. Once they mingled among the patients, the townspeople could begin to recognize in the distress and suffering of former inmates some of the same problems in living that had plagued their own lives."'' </blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>


	In the UK and USA the current situation (albeit with some ongoing positive changes) is probably best exemplified by another quote from ''Psychiatry inside out ...''<blockquote>''"An alternative Basaglian view might lead us to explore how deviance and noncompliance can be forms of resistance and acts of autonomy. Difficult to categorize or treat, these young street people are considered the bane of social workers and psychiatrists alike, for they even "resist the contention that they are mentally ill." Rather than recognizing the legitimacy of many of their complaints, and helping them to channel productively their anger and aggressivity, mental health professionals are simply targeting them as prime candidates for reinstitutionalization in the "new asylum."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press, p48.</small>		In the UK and USA the current situation (albeit with some ongoing positive changes) is probably best exemplified by another quote from ''Psychiatry inside out ...''<blockquote>''"An alternative Basaglian view might lead us to explore how deviance and noncompliance can be forms of resistance and acts of autonomy. Difficult to categorize or treat, these young street people are considered the bane of social workers and psychiatrists alike, for they even "resist the contention that they are mentally ill." Rather than recognizing the legitimacy of many of their complaints, and helping them to channel productively their anger and aggressivity, mental health professionals are simply targeting them as prime candidates for reinstitutionalization in the "new asylum."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press, p48.</small>
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	''"In Basaglia's terms this means an empowerment through words, an understanding that even delusional or delirious speech may be a febrile voice of protest, the only possible resistance available to those who are usually silenced, disgraced, and excluded''."		''"In Basaglia's terms this means an empowerment through words, an understanding that even delusional or delirious speech may be a febrile voice of protest, the only possible resistance available to those who are usually silenced, disgraced, and excluded''."

	<small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press, p48.</small>		<small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press, p48.</small>

	== Paradigm Shift ==		== Paradigm Shift ==

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	Many countries have already made or are making the change but in many others, especially the UK and USA and other rich, industrialised, technologised nations its as if this human rights issue simply does not exist. It does not have the same "sexy" profile as racism or anti-semetism, womens rights and other human rights campaigns. The person who best explains the problem in clear, truthful terms is [[wikipedia:Franco_Basaglia\|Franco Basaglia]] ...<blockquote>''"The microcosm that Basaglia and his colleagues saw in Gorizia was that of the asylum, of the manicomio, as a microsocial architectural space that reproduced perversions in human relationships which were not only countertherapeutic, but iatrogenic, creating an illness specific to itself."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 11.</small><blockquote>''The manicomio, wrote Basaglia in this period, was "an enormous shell filled with bodies that cannot experience themselves and who sit there, , waiting for someone to seize them and make them live as they see fit—that is, as schizophrenics, manic-depressives, hysterics, finally trans formed into things."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small><blockquote>''“Within its four walls, the pulse of history ceases to beat, the social identity of the individual contained therein is suppressed, and the process of total identification of the individual with its psychic dimensions takes place. The conditions of his life maybe offered as proof of his innate inferiority, his culture disregarded as the expression of his irrational deviation. The silence which sets in, in the asylum, becomes both typical of it and guarantees that, from it, no other message will reach the outside world."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>		Many countries have already made or are making the change but in many others, especially the UK and USA and other rich, industrialised, technologised nations its as if this human rights issue simply does not exist. It does not have the same "sexy" profile as racism or anti-semetism, womens rights and other human rights campaigns. The person who best explains the problem in clear, truthful terms is [[wikipedia:Franco_Basaglia\|Franco Basaglia]] ...<blockquote>''"The microcosm that Basaglia and his colleagues saw in Gorizia was that of the asylum, of the manicomio, as a microsocial architectural space that reproduced perversions in human relationships which were not only countertherapeutic, but iatrogenic, creating an illness specific to itself."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 11.</small><blockquote>''The manicomio, wrote Basaglia in this period, was "an enormous shell filled with bodies that cannot experience themselves and who sit there, , waiting for someone to seize them and make them live as they see fit—that is, as schizophrenics, manic-depressives, hysterics, finally trans formed into things."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small><blockquote>''“Within its four walls, the pulse of history ceases to beat, the social identity of the individual contained therein is suppressed, and the process of total identification of the individual with its psychic dimensions takes place. The conditions of his life maybe offered as proof of his innate inferiority, his culture disregarded as the expression of his irrational deviation. The silence which sets in, in the asylum, becomes both typical of it and guarantees that, from it, no other message will reach the outside world."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>


	QED. Problem defined. The modern "asylum" no longer takes place excusively within physical walls but by using modern drugs combined with ECT that essentially seal those people within their "''bodies that cannot experience themselves"'' as Basaglia puts it. Then Basaglia hits the nail on the head ... "''The silence which sets in, in the asylum, becomes both typical of it and guarantees that, from it, <u>no other message will reach the outside world</u>.".'' Hence why this is almost an unknown human rights issue on the world stage, in the media and in every day conversation. This is the problem. The solution ? To create life, knowledge and awareness where there was none in order to produce a completely new but social and human way of dealing with people in distress. For example something like this ...<blockquote>''"A patient who had left the hospital had seriously perturbed the life of the town. He argued with everyone, he would not stop fighting, he went so far as to threaten some people with death. Faced with this situation, the townspeople demanded that he be returned to the hospital, but the psychiatrists refused. With the mayor, they came up with the idea of calling a meeting [assembled], which would be open to everyone, to try to understand, along with the townspeople, what had happened and to search with them for a solution. Given the seriousness of the incidents and their timeliness, a considerable number of people, 1,300, attended . . . their resistances were strong, the discussion rowdy, but eventually the proposition was made that the patient could stay in the village but was to be accompanied by a nurse, at least at first."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>		QED. Problem defined. The modern "asylum" no longer takes place excusively within physical walls but by using modern drugs combined with ECT that essentially seal those people within their "''bodies that cannot experience themselves"'' as Basaglia puts it. Then Basaglia hits the nail on the head ... "''The silence which sets in, in the asylum, becomes both typical of it and guarantees that, from it, <u>no other message will reach the outside world</u>.".'' Hence why this is almost an unknown human rights issue on the world stage, in the media and in every day conversation. This is the problem. The solution ? To create life, knowledge and awareness where there was none in order to produce a completely new but social and human way of dealing with people in distress. For example something like this ...<blockquote>''"A patient who had left the hospital had seriously perturbed the life of the town. He argued with everyone, he would not stop fighting, he went so far as to threaten some people with death. Faced with this situation, the townspeople demanded that he be returned to the hospital, but the psychiatrists refused. With the mayor, they came up with the idea of calling a meeting [assembled], which would be open to everyone, to try to understand, along with the townspeople, what had happened and to search with them for a solution. Given the seriousness of the incidents and their timeliness, a considerable number of people, 1,300, attended . . . their resistances were strong, the discussion rowdy, but eventually the proposition was made that the patient could stay in the village but was to be accompanied by a nurse, at least at first."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>

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	The Trieste/Italian practice went much further by repairing the relationships the artificial boundaries had damaged, both individually and in the society ... <blockquote>''"But for citizens to come inside [the asylum], there had to be strong inducements: film festivals, shows, plays by traveling repertory companies, or performances by musicians, actors, and artists. Once they mingled among the patients, the townspeople could begin to recognize in the distress and suffering of former inmates some of the same problems in living that had plagued their own lives."'' </blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>		The Trieste/Italian practice went much further by repairing the relationships the artificial boundaries had damaged, both individually and in the society ... <blockquote>''"But for citizens to come inside [the asylum], there had to be strong inducements: film festivals, shows, plays by traveling repertory companies, or performances by musicians, actors, and artists. Once they mingled among the patients, the townspeople could begin to recognize in the distress and suffering of former inmates some of the same problems in living that had plagued their own lives."'' </blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>

			In the UK and USA the current situation (albeit with some ongoing positive changes) is probably best exemplified by another quote from ''Psychiatry inside out ...''<blockquote>''"An alternative Basaglian view might lead us to explore how deviance and noncompliance can be forms of resistance and acts of autonomy. Difficult to categorize or treat, these young street people are considered the bane of social workers and psychiatrists alike, for they even "resist the contention that they are mentally ill." Rather than recognizing the legitimacy of many of their complaints, and helping them to channel productively their anger and aggressivity, mental health professionals are simply targeting them as prime candidates for reinstitutionalization in the "new asylum."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press, p48.</small>

	~~In the UK and USA the current situation (albeit with some ongoing positive changes) is probably best exemplified by another quote from ''Psychiatry inside out~~ ...''~~<blockquote>~~'~~'"An alternative Basaglian view might lead us to explore how deviance and noncompliance can~~ be ~~forms~~ of resistance ~~and acts of autonomy. Difficult~~ to ~~categorize or treat, these young street people~~ are ~~considered the bane of social workers and psychiatrists alike~~, ~~for they even "resist the contention that they are mentally ill." Rather than recognizing the legitimacy of many of their complaints~~, and ~~helping them to channel productively their anger and aggressivity, mental health professionals are simply targeting them as prime candidates for reinstitutionalization in the "new asylum~~."~~''</blockquote>~~<small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press, p48.</small>		Conversely a more enlightened approach leads to ...

			''"In Basaglia's terms this means an empowerment through words, an understanding that even delusional or delirious speech may be a febrile voice of protest, the only possible resistance available to those who are usually silenced, disgraced, and excluded''."

			<small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press, p48.</small>

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	Many countries have already made or are making the change but in many others, especially the UK and USA and other rich, industrialised, technologised nations its as if this human rights issue simply does not exist. It does not have the same "sexy" profile as racism or anti-semetism, womens rights and other human rights campaigns. The person who best explains the problem in clear, truthful terms is [[wikipedia:Franco_Basaglia\|Franco Basaglia]] ...<blockquote>''"The microcosm that Basaglia and his colleagues saw in Gorizia was that of the asylum, of the manicomio, as a microsocial architectural space that reproduced perversions in human relationships which were not only countertherapeutic, but iatrogenic, creating an illness specific to itself."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 11.</small><blockquote>''The manicomio, wrote Basaglia in this period, was "an enormous shell filled with bodies that cannot experience themselves and who sit there, , waiting for someone to seize them and make them live as they see fit—that is, as schizophrenics, manic-depressives, hysterics, finally trans formed into things."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small><blockquote>''“Within its four walls, the pulse of history ceases to beat, the social identity of the individual contained therein is suppressed, and the process of total identification of the individual with its psychic dimensions takes place. The conditions of his life maybe offered as proof of his innate inferiority, his culture disregarded as the expression of his irrational deviation. The silence which sets in, in the asylum, becomes both typical of it and guarantees that, from it, no other message will reach the outside world."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>		Many countries have already made or are making the change but in many others, especially the UK and USA and other rich, industrialised, technologised nations its as if this human rights issue simply does not exist. It does not have the same "sexy" profile as racism or anti-semetism, womens rights and other human rights campaigns. The person who best explains the problem in clear, truthful terms is [[wikipedia:Franco_Basaglia\|Franco Basaglia]] ...<blockquote>''"The microcosm that Basaglia and his colleagues saw in Gorizia was that of the asylum, of the manicomio, as a microsocial architectural space that reproduced perversions in human relationships which were not only countertherapeutic, but iatrogenic, creating an illness specific to itself."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 11.</small><blockquote>''The manicomio, wrote Basaglia in this period, was "an enormous shell filled with bodies that cannot experience themselves and who sit there, , waiting for someone to seize them and make them live as they see fit—that is, as schizophrenics, manic-depressives, hysterics, finally trans formed into things."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small><blockquote>''“Within its four walls, the pulse of history ceases to beat, the social identity of the individual contained therein is suppressed, and the process of total identification of the individual with its psychic dimensions takes place. The conditions of his life maybe offered as proof of his innate inferiority, his culture disregarded as the expression of his irrational deviation. The silence which sets in, in the asylum, becomes both typical of it and guarantees that, from it, no other message will reach the outside world."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>


	QED. Problem defined. The modern "asylum" no longer takes place excusively within physical walls but by using modern drugs combined with ECT that essentially seal those people within their "''bodies that cannot experience themselves"'' as Basaglia puts it. Then Basaglia hits the nail on the head ... "''The silence which sets in, in the asylum, becomes both typical of it and guarantees that, from it, <u>no other message will reach the outside world</u>.".'' Hence why this is almost an unknown human rights issue on the world stage, in the media and in every day conversation. This is the problem. The solution ? To create life, knowledge and awareness where there was none in order to produce a completely new but social and human way of dealing with people in distress. For example something like this ...<blockquote>''"A patient who had left the hospital had seriously perturbed the life of the town. He argued with everyone, he would not stop fighting, he went so far as to threaten some people with death. Faced with this situation, the townspeople demanded that he be returned to the hospital, but the psychiatrists refused. With the mayor, they came up with the idea of calling a meeting [assembled], which would be open to everyone, to try to understand, along with the townspeople, what had happened and to search with them for a solution. Given the seriousness of the incidents and their timeliness, a considerable number of people, 1,300, attended . . . their resistances were strong, the discussion rowdy, but eventually the proposition was made that the patient could stay in the village but was to be accompanied by a nurse, at least at first."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>		QED. Problem defined. The modern "asylum" no longer takes place excusively within physical walls but by using modern drugs combined with ECT that essentially seal those people within their "''bodies that cannot experience themselves"'' as Basaglia puts it. Then Basaglia hits the nail on the head ... "''The silence which sets in, in the asylum, becomes both typical of it and guarantees that, from it, <u>no other message will reach the outside world</u>.".'' Hence why this is almost an unknown human rights issue on the world stage, in the media and in every day conversation. This is the problem. The solution ? To create life, knowledge and awareness where there was none in order to produce a completely new but social and human way of dealing with people in distress. For example something like this ...<blockquote>''"A patient who had left the hospital had seriously perturbed the life of the town. He argued with everyone, he would not stop fighting, he went so far as to threaten some people with death. Faced with this situation, the townspeople demanded that he be returned to the hospital, but the psychiatrists refused. With the mayor, they came up with the idea of calling a meeting [assembled], which would be open to everyone, to try to understand, along with the townspeople, what had happened and to search with them for a solution. Given the seriousness of the incidents and their timeliness, a considerable number of people, 1,300, attended . . . their resistances were strong, the discussion rowdy, but eventually the proposition was made that the patient could stay in the village but was to be accompanied by a nurse, at least at first."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>
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	The Trieste/Italian practice went much further by repairing the relationships the artificial boundaries had damaged, both individually and in the society ... <blockquote>''"But for citizens to come inside [the asylum], there had to be strong inducements: film festivals, shows, plays by traveling repertory companies, or performances by musicians, actors, and artists. Once they mingled among the patients, the townspeople could begin to recognize in the distress and suffering of former inmates some of the same problems in living that had plagued their own lives."'' </blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>		The Trieste/Italian practice went much further by repairing the relationships the artificial boundaries had damaged, both individually and in the society ... <blockquote>''"But for citizens to come inside [the asylum], there had to be strong inducements: film festivals, shows, plays by traveling repertory companies, or performances by musicians, actors, and artists. Once they mingled among the patients, the townspeople could begin to recognize in the distress and suffering of former inmates some of the same problems in living that had plagued their own lives."'' </blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>


	In the UK and USA the current situation (albeit with some ongoing positive changes) is probably best exemplified by another quote from ''Psychiatry inside out ...''<blockquote>''"An alternative Basaglian view might lead us to explore how deviance and noncompliance can be forms of resistance and acts of autonomy. Difficult to categorize or treat, these young street people are considered the bane of social workers and psychiatrists alike, for they even "resist the contention that they are mentally ill." Rather than recognizing the legitimacy of many of their complaints, and helping them to channel productively their anger and aggressivity, mental health professionals are simply targeting them as prime candidates for reinstitutionalization in the "new asylum."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press, p48.</small>		In the UK and USA the current situation (albeit with some ongoing positive changes) is probably best exemplified by another quote from ''Psychiatry inside out ...''<blockquote>''"An alternative Basaglian view might lead us to explore how deviance and noncompliance can be forms of resistance and acts of autonomy. Difficult to categorize or treat, these young street people are considered the bane of social workers and psychiatrists alike, for they even "resist the contention that they are mentally ill." Rather than recognizing the legitimacy of many of their complaints, and helping them to channel productively their anger and aggressivity, mental health professionals are simply targeting them as prime candidates for reinstitutionalization in the "new asylum."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press, p48.</small>

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	Therefore the psychiatrists role has fundamentally shifted. In the case above the psychiatrists refused to simply get rid of the person. They negotiated and allowed the towns people their right to a say, as well as the right of the patient not to be excluded. It's the exclusion that creates a much worse problem where the patient would have been damaged and the society impoverished by disallowing it having a role of responsibility and humanity.		Therefore the psychiatrists role has fundamentally shifted. In the case above the psychiatrists refused to simply get rid of the person. They negotiated and allowed the towns people their right to a say, as well as the right of the patient not to be excluded. It's the exclusion that creates a much worse problem where the patient would have been damaged and the society impoverished by disallowing it having a role of responsibility and humanity.

	The Trieste/Italian practice went much further by repairing the relationships the artificial boundaries had damaged, both individually and in the society ... <blockquote>''"But for citizens to come inside [the asylum], there had to be strong inducements: film festivals, shows, plays by traveling repertory companies, or performances by musicians, actors, and artists. Once they mingled among the patients, the townspeople could begin to recognize in the distress and suffering of former inmates some of the same problems in living that had plagued their own lives."'' </blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>		The Trieste/Italian practice went much further by repairing the relationships the artificial boundaries had damaged, both individually and in the society ... <blockquote>''"But for citizens to come inside [the asylum], there had to be strong inducements: film festivals, shows, plays by traveling repertory companies, or performances by musicians, actors, and artists. Once they mingled among the patients, the townspeople could begin to recognize in the distress and suffering of former inmates some of the same problems in living that had plagued their own lives."'' </blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>

			In the UK and USA the current situation (albeit with some ongoing positive changes) is probably best exemplified by another quote from ''Psychiatry inside out ...''<blockquote>''"An alternative Basaglian view might lead us to explore how deviance and noncompliance can be forms of resistance and acts of autonomy. Difficult to categorize or treat, these young street people are considered the bane of social workers and psychiatrists alike, for they even "resist the contention that they are mentally ill." Rather than recognizing the legitimacy of many of their complaints, and helping them to channel productively their anger and aggressivity, mental health professionals are simply targeting them as prime candidates for reinstitutionalization in the "new asylum."''</blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press, p48.</small>

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	Therefore the psychiatrists role has fundamentally shifted. In the case above the psychiatrists refused to simply get rid of the person. They negotiated and allowed the towns people their right to a say, as well as the right of the patient not to be excluded. It's the exclusion that creates a much worse problem where the patient would have been damaged and the society impoverished by disallowing it having a role of responsibility and humanity.		Therefore the psychiatrists role has fundamentally shifted. In the case above the psychiatrists refused to simply get rid of the person. They negotiated and allowed the towns people their right to a say, as well as the right of the patient not to be excluded. It's the exclusion that creates a much worse problem where the patient would have been damaged and the society impoverished by disallowing it having a role of responsibility and humanity.

			The Trieste/Italian practice went much further by repairing the relationships the artificial boundaries had damaged, both individually and in the society ... <blockquote>''"But for citizens to come inside [the asylum], there had to be strong inducements: film festivals, shows, plays by traveling repertory companies, or performances by musicians, actors, and artists. Once they mingled among the patients, the townspeople could begin to recognize in the distress and suffering of former inmates some of the same problems in living that had plagued their own lives."'' </blockquote><small>Source: Basaglia, Franco (1987). Psychiatry inside out : selected writings of Franco Basaglia. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anne Lovell. New York: Columbia University Press.</small>

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