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On this page you will find an archive of texts on all aspects of mental healthcare in Trieste and related topics, with a historical survey of the deinstitutionalisation process in Trieste and an introduction to the life and work of Franco Basaglia, together with a selection of his writings.

 

The Trieste Mental Health Service Guide:
file DOC The Mental Health Services Guide 2004 (DOC 300 Kb)

 

Roots and branches

file PDF The destruction of the Mental Health Hospital as a place of institutionalisation (...) (PDF 149 Kb)
Franco Basaglia - Director, Ospedale Psichiatrico Provinciale di Gorizia
First International Congress of Social Psychiatry (London 1964)

file PDF Trieste twenty years after: From the criticism of Psychiatric Institutions to Institutions of Mental Health (PDF 224 Kb)
Giuseppe Dell'Acqua, Director, Mental Health Department Trieste (1995)

file PDF The invented istitution (PDF 27 Kb)
Franco Rotelli, Former Director, Psychiatric Services of Trieste (Trieste 1988) 

file PDF Eight plus Eight Principles. For a Collective and Community Based Psychiatric Stragegy (Towards Mental Health) (PDF 30 Kb)
Franco Rotelli, Mental Health Dept. Director (Trieste 1992)

file PDF Deinstitutionalization and Community: A possible restitution (PDF 357 Kb)
Roberto Mezzina, Mental Health Dept. Trieste
Building Bridges Conference, Auckland (March 29-31, 2000)

file PDF Social enterprise (PDF 24 Kb)
Franco Rotelli
Opening address to the WAPR Congress, Paris (May 8, 2001)

file PDF Is Rehabilitation a Social Enterprise? (PDF 347)
Franco Rotelli, Roberto Mezzina, Ota De Leonardis, Renate Goergen, Pasquale Evaristo, Ed. Roberto Mezzina, discussed in the frame of: "Initiative of support to people disabled by mental illness", Wworld Health Organisation - Division of Mental Health - Geneva Partecipating Centres: Canada (British Columbia), Italy (Trieste), Scotland (Inverness), Netherlands (Ministry of Health), U.S.A. - Colorado (Boulder), Spain (Oviedo), Japan (National Federation of Families).

 

Laws, policies, documents

Green Paper - Improving the mental health of the population: towards a strategy on mental health for the European Union
file PDF Green Paper (PDF 898)

file DOC The Italian Mental Health Law (DOC 60 Kb)
From: Maria Grazia Giannichedda, Evaluation of the Mental Health Law Reform in Italy
Lessons learned presentation for the Second WHO International Training Forum on Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation, Geneva (November 10-12, 2003)

 

Organisation

file PDF Psychiatric Reform in Italy (32 Kb)
Giovanna Del Giudice, Trieste Mental Health Department (1998)

file PDF Trieste Mental Health Department De-institutionalisation and human rights - the case in Europe (PDF 104 Kb)
Giuseppe Dell'Acqua - Trieste Mental Health Dept. Director
From: Stop exclusion - Dare to care - World Health Day 2001, World Health Organisation (Geneva, March 2001)

file PDF The Trieste mental health services: history, context, principles (PDF 244 Kb)
Bruno Norcio, Carlotta Baldi, Giuseppe Dell'Acqua, Massimo Marsili
International Conference and workshops in Auckland, Hamilton e Wellington, New Zealand (March 2001)

file PDF The organisation of the Mental Health Department Services in Trieste. Brief presentation (PDF 174 Kb)
Edited by: M.H.D. Training Programs Office (Trieste, March 2002)

file PDF The Trieste Mental Health Department: facilities, services and programs (PDF 194 Kb)
Roberto Mezzina (1997, English version 2000)

 

Practices

file PDF Responding to Crisis. Strategies and Intentionality in Community Psychiatric Intervention
Giuseppe Dell'Acqua, Roberto Mezzina - Department of Mental Health, Trieste
In: Per la Salute Mentale / For mental Health - Rivista del Centro Studi - WHO Collaborating Centre - Regione Friuli - Venezia Giulia (1988)

file PDF Rehabilitating Rehabilitation
Franco Rotelli, Director, Mental Health Department Trieste (1993)

file PDF Shouldering the Burden (Providing Treatment) for Persons with Schizophrenic Disturbances in the Community: The Deinstitutionalized Model
Followed by: "Integrated Care of People with Psychosis in the Community: the Approach in Trieste."
Giuseppe Dell'Acqua - Roberto Mezzina
Schizophrenia Treatment Consensus Conference (Bruxelles, May 1998)

file PDF Woman Centre - Mental Health. Gender Matters
Assunta Signorelli - Dept. of Mental Health, Trieste (1999)

file PDF EMERGENCY AND THE PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS AND CARE SERVICE: THE EXPERIENCE IN TRIESTE
Bruno Norcio - Trieste Mental Health Dept.
For a PPT presentation in London (GB), Senate House (March 2002)

 

As Others see Us

Senator Lyn Allison (Australia) (2006) file PDF Mental Health Services Report (PDF 774 Kb)

Tony Gardner (UK) (may/june 2006) file PDF Partnership trip to the mental health services of Trieste and District (PDF 261 Kb)

Hellen Killaspy (UK) (2005) file PDF Study tour to visit mental health services in Trieste, Italy (PDF 166 Kb)

file PDF A Fresh Look at the Person-Centred Occupation Focus and Social Integration of Consumers through the Trieste Experience
Rachelle Cotterill, Jim Herbert, Nicole Grimberg & Moy Dibden: Report on a six months Stage in Trieste by three Occupational Therapy Students, Australia (2001)

file PDF Trieste: The Current Situation
Tim Kendall - Third International Conference on "Psychosis: Integrating the Inner and Outer Worlds"
University of Essex, Colchester, England (September 1996)

file PDF Report on Trieste
Rob Warriner - New Zealand, 1st Trieste International Congress for Mental Health
Franco Basaglia: la comunità possibile
(Trieste, october 1998)

 

Trieste and the International Scene

file PDF Recommendations Of The "PRACTICES" Stream Commission
1st International Congress on Mental Health - Trieste, September 1998
"Franco Basaglia: La comunità possibile"
Roberto Mezzina, Ed.

file PDF LEROS, A SMALL ISLAND IN THE DODECANESE, CLOSE TO THE TURKISH COAST
Maurizio Costantino - Trieste Mental Health Department, 1998
At the end of the '80 the European Commission asked the Greek Government to implement a radical transformation of the Greek psychiatric system. An Italian expert's staff worked for the change also in the Leros Psychiatric Hospital. This staff was co-ordinated by the Mental Health Studies and Research Centre of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (Italian WHO collaborating Centre) . The author has been responsible of the Italian team in Leros in 1993/94.

file PDF De-institutionalisation in Italy : between ethics and politics
Mario Colucci, Bruno Norcio, Cristiana Sindici - Trieste Mental Health Dept.
European Conference on Mental Health, Rotterdam, 7-10 March 2000 and published in the Final Report of the three-years european research on "Ethical Aspects of the Deinstitutionalisation", June 2000.

file PDF Globalisation And The Challenge For Mental Health Services
Roberto Mezzina, psychiatrist, Trieste (Italy) Birmingham (November 16, 2001)

Trieste WHO Collaborating Centre: Activities carried out (1999 – 2003) Regional Study Centre (RSC) for Mental Health Research and Training through the Mental Health Department (MHD), Trieste (MHD-RSC), Italy:
file DOC Activities Report (DOC 31 Kb)

"Mental Health Inequalities in Europe - Migrant Mental Health", London, UK, 7-8 November 2005:
file PDF Mental Health Inequalities in Europe - Day 1 (PDF 294 Kb) | file PDF Mental Health Inequalities in Europe - Day 2 (PDF 248 Kb)

 

Various articles

Colucci M, (2006) file PDF Medicalisation (PDF 41 Kb)

Gardner T, (2006) file PDF From the Tyranny of Patienthood to recovery and citizenship (PDF 77 Kb)

Mezzina R, (2005) Citizenship: the social dimension of recovery - TheMHS Conference: Dancing to the beat of a different drum / Mental health, social inclusion, citizenship, Adelaide, SA, 31 August 2005

Saraceno B, (2006) file PDF Important Archives Of Psychiat article (PDF 34 Kb)

file DOC Care and/or Cure: The Role Of The Services And Operators (DOC 80 Kb)
Transcription of a contribution by Dr. Franco Rotelli - September 27, 1999

file PDF Subjects? their stories must be told
Franco Rotelli, General Manager, Trieste Health Agency, 1st International Congress on Mental Health: Franco Basaglia: la comunità possibile (Trieste, October 1998)


Training programmes

file PDF Community-based mental health work: knowledge, roles and power in the organisation of community-based Services
Trieste, Sept. 27–30, 2004 - National training course for Nurses, Rehabilitation Technicians and Educators (.DOC 70 Kb)

file PDF "in practice"
Operator - Service - Context - User: seeking ways for mutual value-giving
A programme - as example - for the continuos training of personnel of the Mental Health Dept. Trieste (1999)
In accord with the programme, during the Course for mandatory updating "in pratica", the participants drew up a series of
file PDF Recommendations To Ourselves

file DOCLeonardo Da Vinci Pilot ProjectLeonardo Da Vinci Pilot Projects (2001 - 2004) (DOC 60 Kb)
An European Training Curriculum for Nurses in Community-based Mental Health Services
Web Site » http://www.wap-leonardo.de/eng/index.html

Modules for an European Curriculum
01 - file RTF A Curriculum for community based mental health nursing (RTF 473 Kb)
02 - file RTF International Module (RTF 59 Kb)
03 - file RTF Community-based Mental Health Institutions in practice: Nurse – Service – Context – User (RTF 326 Kb)
04 - file RTF Enjoyment And Wellness - Applying Recovery Based Knowledge To Improving Working Lives (RTF 24 Kb)
05 - file RTF Users? Narrate them (RTF 329 Kb)
06 - file RTF Reflection on nursing (RTF 71 Kb)
07 - file RTF Building capacity / an individual and community focus (RTF 78 Kb)
08 - file RTF A person-centred approach to working with crises and related risks in community mental health services (RTF 63 Kb)
09 - file RTF Care Management / Cooperation (RTF 112 Kb)

True Stories...
file DOC Claudia Battiston - She chose the one, I chose the other (DOC 42 Kb)
file DOC Andrea Clarot - There I am, full of love (DOC 33 Kb)
file DOC Lorenzo Decarli - These are her initials (DOC 42 Kb)
file DOC Rossana De Santi - Maria (DOC 38 Kb)
file DOC Cristina Facco - The Omelette (DOC 31 Kb)
file DOC Linda Giuliani - (Untitled) (DOC 38 Kb)
file DOC Paola Marchino - 5 out of 89 in four hours (DOC 50 Kb)
file DOC Cristiana Sindici - (Untitled) (DOC 108 Kb)

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