The history of asylum internment in Italy is an area of Trauma Studies which has yet to be sufficiently studied. Some considerable issues lie at the core of the discourse: the internment in Italian asylums of thousands of people who were not always mentally ill; the invasive psychiatric treatments to which the inmates were subjected; their expulsion from asylums after the approval of Law 180 in 1978. Furthermore, at the end of the Second World War another trauma was the internment of exiles from Istria in the Trieste and Gorizia asylums. In those years, psychiatrists, hospital staff, and inmates were both witnesses to and victims of this phase of transition. This caused, on the one hand, the aphasia and silence of patients and former inmates; on the other, psychiatrists at times became authors of a testimonial psychiatric narration, also expressed in theatrical forms. This article focuses on the testimonial writings by Peppe dell’Acqua, a psychiatrist in Franco Basaglia’s team who worked in the San Giovanni asylum in Trieste between 1973 and 1980 and authored the pièce "(tra parentesi). La vera storia di un’improbabile liberazione" (2019).
La storia dell'internamento nei manicomi in Italia è un'area dei Trauma Studies che deve essere ancora sufficientemente studiata. Al centro del discorso ci sono alcune questioni rilevanti: l'internamento nei manicomi italiani di migliaia di persone non sempre malate di mente; i trattamenti psichiatrici invasivi a cui furono sottoposti gli internati; la loro espulsione dai manicomi negli anni successivi all'approvazione della legge 180 nel 1978. Inoltre, alla fine della seconda guerra mondiale un altro trauma fu l'internamento degli esuli istriani nei manicomi di Trieste e Gorizia. In quegli anni, psichiatri, personale ospedaliero e internati furono sia testimoni che vittime di questa fase di transizione. Ciò causò, da un lato, l'afasia e il silenzio dei pazienti e degli ex internati; dall'altro, gli psichiatri divennero a volte autori di una narrazione psichiatrica testimoniale, espressa anche in forme teatrali. Questo articolo si concentra sugli scritti testimoniali di Peppe dell’Acqua, psichiatra dell’équipe di Franco Basaglia che lavorò al manicomio San Giovanni di Trieste tra il 1973 e il 1980 e autore della pièce "(tra parentesi). La vera storia di un'improbabile liberazione" (2019).
Memoria traumatica e memoria psichiatrica. Peppe Dell’Acqua e il racconto di un manicomio di confine
Marina Guglielmi
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2022-01-01
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The history of asylum internment in Italy is an area of Trauma Studies which has yet to be sufficiently studied. Some considerable issues lie at the core of the discourse: the internment in Italian asylums of thousands of people who were not always mentally ill; the invasive psychiatric treatments to which the inmates were subjected; their expulsion from asylums after the approval of Law 180 in 1978. Furthermore, at the end of the Second World War another trauma was the internment of exiles from Istria in the Trieste and Gorizia asylums. In those years, psychiatrists, hospital staff, and inmates were both witnesses to and victims of this phase of transition. This caused, on the one hand, the aphasia and silence of patients and former inmates; on the other, psychiatrists at times became authors of a testimonial psychiatric narration, also expressed in theatrical forms. This article focuses on the testimonial writings by Peppe dell’Acqua, a psychiatrist in Franco Basaglia’s team who worked in the San Giovanni asylum in Trieste between 1973 and 1980 and authored the pièce "(tra parentesi). La vera storia di un’improbabile liberazione" (2019).| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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