Franco Basaglia's Revolution: From the Blue Horse to the Actuality of His Practice

This book explores the importance of the work of Franco Basaglia, a pioneer in the democratic psychiatry movement. Using a multidisciplinary approach combining philosophy and psychology this volume seeks to illuminate the past and create a clearer picture of Basaglia's impact in conceptualizing modern psychiatric care. It reviews the contemporary status of care and offers new insights for a critical evaluation of care that takes the psychiatric revolution to a new level. Highlights Basaglia’s diagnostic and clinical practice Employs a multi-disciplinary approach Joins phenomenology and critical theory

About the Author

Dr. Bizzari Valeria Bizzari currently works at the Husserl Archives of the KU in Leuven. Her research interests involve phenomenology, philosophy of emotions and phenomenological psychopathology. From 2018 to October 2020, she worked at the Clinic for General Psychiatry, Universität Heidelberg with a project on neurodivergence. She spent visiting research periods at the Center for Subjectivity Research in Copenhagen, the Oxford Empathy Programme at University of Oxford, and Departments of Philosophy at the University of Wien, Salute-San Raffaele Milan and Macquarie University in Sydney.

Dr. Guareschi obtained his PhD at the University College Cork, Ireland, specializing in phenomenology. He also  obtained both the national qualification for teaching Philosophy and Human Sciences and the Specialization as special education teacher in high school. He is currently affiliated to the Philosophy Department at the University of Parma (as an expert in Aesthetics) and is employed as a special education teacher at the Liceo delle Scienze Umane Albertina Sanvitale in Parma.