Poste Italiane announces that today 11 March 2024 a commemorative stamp of Franco Basaglia is issued by the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy, on the centenary of his birth, relating to the value of 1.25 euros in two hundred and fifty thousand and twenty copies and with a sketch by Emanuela L 'Abbot.
The cartoon depicts a portrait of Franco Basaglia, an authoritative Italian psychiatrist and neurologist of the 20th century.
The Bulletin recalls, among other things, that "Franco Basaglia, a psychiatrist who marked an epochal turning point in the history of mental health and who led to the approval of law 180 in Italy, was born in Venice on 11 March 1924. In In 1961 he entered the psychiatric hospital of Gorizia as director, where he moved with his family. Here he began his radical work of institutional transformation, starting from the terrible conditions in which the inmates found themselves and giving centrality to their needs. After a brief experience in Parma at the psychiatric hospital of Colorno, in 1971 he became director of the psychiatric hospital of Trieste. Here he was able to put into practice the concrete alternative to the mental hospital: mental health services in the area. So much so that in 1973 Trieste became a "zone pilot". On 13 May 1978, Law 180, also known as the Basaglia Law, was approved in Parliament. In November 1979 he moved to Rome to coordinate the psychiatric services of the Lazio Region.
In the spring of 1980 he fell ill.
He will die on August 29, in his house in Venice.
In 2001, the WHO in its World Report on Mental Health recognized the Basaglia experience as a fundamental model for the evolution of mental health systems throughout the world".
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