Date: 6/29/2011
TUMSPR News: In the meeting coordinated by the Ministry of Health and the WHO Country Office in Iran on discussing community-based psychiatry, Dr. Roberto Mezzini said in areas of Italy the system had been in place it had worked well and the help had been given by the community; a community-based psychiatry on June 28, 2011.
Dr. Roberto Mezzini, a psychiatrist and a WHO consultant, who met with Iranian peers at Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) upon an invitation by the World Health Organization (WHO) office in Iran analyzed the movement in the Italian mental health system which had started in 1961 by Dr. Franco Basaglia, and it had been made to law in 1978 through showing a movie named “Once upon a time there was the asylum, where was the madness was”.
During the discussions Dr. Mezzini expressed his pleasure of being a guest of such a meeting and in introducing the model he modestly said they would not be the best choices to represent the experience although he had been one of Basaglia’s assistants in the past.
He added that Basaglia confronted the core issue of traditional psychiatric hospitals which meant to protect the society from the patients but he changed the way people treated the mentally ill patients and said meet the human beings and their needs and discover them in their real life.
Dr Mezzini said at that time people who were admitted to asylums could be released within 28 days of the preliminary evaluation or be confined in the place for one or two decades or for life and they would be taken away from their possessions, home, or any other assets and be given to a third party unless the family could undertake the responsibility of keeping the patient.
He said Basaglia gave a voice to the patients and his greatest intuition was to change the reality and advocate for a social change to help the disabled people.
He said in areas of Italy the system had been in place it had worked well and the help had been given by the community; a community-based psychiatry.
He argued that social support networks could help and 60% of those with sever diagnosis could still work and the concept of dangerousness was changed ever since.
On offering his expertise t help he said, “We don’t have any solutions to propose to you and we don’t have the leadership in the world. We just want to convince and not win the minds of people with different thoughts and practice is the only way to witness the change”.
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