Democratic Psychiatry

Democratic Psychiatry (Italian: Psichiatria Democratica) is an Italian real society, as well as a movement for liberation of the ill and weak from segregation in mental hospitals,^: 61 by pushing for the Italian psychiatric reform.^: 95 The movement was political in nature but not antipsychiatric in the sense in which this term is usually used in English.^: 95 Democratic Psychiatry called for radical changes in the practice and theory of psychiatry and strongly attacked the way society managed mental illness.^: 95 The movement was essential in the birth of the reform Basaglia Law of 1978.^: 95