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No. 14, I/2024 – Alternative Psychiatry and Philosophy. One Hundred Years from the Birth of Franco Basaglia Download PDF OVERVIEW A Plural and Meaningful Movement Francesco Piro CONTRIBUTIONS Towards a Post-Disciplinary Psychiatry: Michel Foucault and the Contemporary Psychiatric Device Luigi Grisolia From the Neuro-Subject to the Drive-Based Subject. Which Institutions? Giuseppe Viviano Voices from Within […]

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16444508 Review of Caracciolo, Lucio (2022). La pace è finita. Così ricomincia la storia in Europa, Feltrinelli, Milano by Enrico Volpe Book review of Caracciolo, Lucio (2022). La pace è finita. Così ricomincia la storia in Europa, Feltrinelli, Milano. Download PDF

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18835439 The “Arthemis” – Research Group in Ancient Philosophy (University of Salerno). Beyond the History of Ancient Philosophy by Giorgia Bruno The “Arthemis” – Research Group in Ancient Philosophy (named after the Greek goddess of the hunt) is based at the University of Salerno. The group, coordinated and directed by Claudia Lo Casto, is […]

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16444448 Between the Need to Believe and the Crisis of Credibility: the Fine Line Connecting ‘True’ and ‘Sacred’ in Leonardo Sciascia’s Work by Fiorenza Manzo This paper argues for the possibility of identifying a unifying thread in the work of Leonardo Sciascia by analyzing three of his major writings: Todo modo (1974), La scomparsa […]

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16444416 Franco Basaglia and Philosophy in the Age of DSM-5 by Loredana Di Adamo In a contemporaneity devoted to technicality and the sanitation of need, Franco Basaglia’s work returns to echo the question about the meaning of care. Medicalizing, aseptic and standardized practices have become the norm: for each problem we have identified a […]

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16444384 «I Don’t Know What Mental Illness is» by Gabriele Pulli Franco Basaglia never denied the existence of mental illness but said he did not know what it is. This Socratic/Basaglian position, this knowledge of not knowing what madness is, has great human, cultural and philosophical value. Only by dealing with madness can philosophical […]

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16444345 Basaglia’s “Anti-Psychiatry” Interpreted through Galtung’s Definiton of a(n Inner) Conflict by Antonino Drago Present communication shows that Franco Basaglia’s intellectual path from a positivist conception to an existentialist and Heideggerian conception of psychiatry corresponds to an adding to the only dimension of objective Behavior (B) which the traditional psychiatry saw in a mentally […]

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16444276 Voices from Within and Voices from Below. What Role for Anti-psychiatry in Times of Lived Experience Movements? by Giulia Bergamaschi While anti-psychiatry historically advocated for patient participation in shaping psychiatric knowledge, contemporary movements and associations comprising psychiatrized individuals are increasingly critiquing anti-psychiatry. What are the reasons for this upheaval? To understand it, we […]

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16444248 From the Neuro-Subject to the Drive-Based Subject. Which Institutions? by Giuseppe Viviano The spirit of time is characterized by a biological reductionism, that is, it tends to reduce the mind to the functioning of the brain: the subject is its brain. So, its behaviors, its thoughts, its actions are the expression of what […]

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16444154 Towards a Post-Disciplinary Psychiatry: Michel Foucault and the Contemporary Psychiatric Device by Luigi Grisolia From Michel Foucault’s investigations of disciplinary psychiatry, three operations can be enucleated: the production of subjectivity by subjecting bodies to “subject functions”; the individuation of residual subjectivities of disciplinary power through the “absolute diagnosis” that dichotomously divides the population […]