Date: 6/29/2011
TUMSPR News: In a meeting held to introduce the Italian model of mental health, Dr. Renzo Bonn belives medicne is both science and practice and very much linked to philosophy on June 28, 2011.
The Italian psychiatrists, Dr. Renzo Bonn, a WHO consultant and a Social Psychiatry lecturer at the University of Udine in Italy, and Dr. Roberto Mezzini, a WHO consultant met with their Iranian peers at Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) upon an invitation by the World Health Organization (WHO) office in Iran, headed by Dr. Ambrogio Manenti, and coordination of the Ministry of Health’s Office for Mental Health and Narcotic Addiction Prevention on June 28, 2011.
The meeting mostly focused on analyzing the movie “Once upon a time there was the asylum, where was the madness ” which depicts the Italian community-based mental health system lead by Dr. Franco Basaglia, and its legislation in 1978.
In his comments, Dr. Renzo Bonn, a WHO consultant and a Social Psychiatry lecturer at the University of Udine in Italy, stressed that in many places of Italy the system had not been applied but in areas it had been put to use it had worked seamlessly.
Then he said Franco Basaglia was not a [pure] scientist and medicine is not [pure] science but science and practice and very much linked to philosophy.
On the resistance by the traditional asylum advocates that argue it should not be wise to disarm those centers from their daily practices and community based systems could address only some of the problems said: “We live in reality and not in pieces of reality. Science is continuously changing but we have to take the decision in practice. Human being is a project but an existential project. Medicine is science but health is our practice”.
http://publicrelations.tums.ac.ir/english/news/detail.asp?newsID=25565
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