The Man Who Closed the Asylums keyword-ida-b-wells This is a book not

This is a book not only for historians

focusing on key texts

First published at the height of feminist organizing in the 1970s

and as a space of everyday experience

The Man Who Closed the Asylums keyword-ida-b-wells This is a book notIn 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded, redolent of Basaglia's own wartime experience inside a fascist gaol. Patients were frequently restrained for long periods, and therapy was largely a matter of electric and insulin shocks. The corridors stank, and for many of the interned the doors were locked