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In The Weight of the Printed Word, Steve Wright explores the creation and use of documents as a key dimension in the activities of the Italian workerists during the 1960s and 1970s, as they sought to organise amongst new subjectivities of mass rebellion.
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Il 9 settembre 1979 settantamila ragazze e ragazzi si radunano allo stadio di Bologna; il giorno dopo un'identica folla riempie il Comunale di Firenze. Quei centoquarantamila giovani giunti da ogni angolo d'Italia per ascoltare i due concerti del Patti Smith Group sono, in buona parte inconsapevolmente, l'espressione di un'epoca: il punto di arrivo di un percorso in cui convivono l'anima del 1968 e quella del 1977, la rivolta contro la famiglia borghese e la protesta contro la società, la rivoluzione della musica rock e «l'orda d'oro» dei movimenti extraparlamentari. In Rumore rosso Goffredo Plastino ripercorre la miriade di fili nascosti intrecciati a questi due concerti leggendari, trac...
The 1978 Italian Psychiatric Reform was welcomed as a significant advancement in the care of the mentally ill, as it involved, for the first time ever, the complete shutdown of psychiatric hospitals in a major Western country. Today, Italian psychiatry is totally different from that of the rest of the world, due to its complete commitment to community care. The transition towards the community model was appraised by many relevant international organisations, such as the World Health Organisation, as a fundamental step towards a better quality of life, well-being and social functioning of persons with mental diseases. This passage wasn’t easy, however, and the closure of Italian psychiatric...
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Today, more than 70 years after Eugen Bleuler introduced the term schizophrenia, the human condition so labeled continues to pose a formidable challenge to the helping professions. In recent years it may seem that this challenge can be met most successful ly by biologicalIy oriented researchers and therapists: AlI over the world neuroleptic drugs have made it possible to control disturbing symptoms and shorten hospital stays. Ever more refined technologies permit study of intricate neurophysiological and pharma cological processes that seem to underlie, if not contribute to, schizophrenic disorders. Most recently, the discovery of the endorphins promises a new therapeutic breakthrough. At th...