Date: 6/29/2011
TUMSPR News: By the invitation by the World Health Organization (WHO) and coordination of the Ministry of Health’s Office for Mental Health and Narcotic Addiction Prevention, two Italian psychiatrists travelled to Iran to discuss the Italian model of mental health that relies on open-door mental hospitals with their Iranian peers on June 28, 2011.
Two Italian psychiatrists, Dr. Renzo Bonn, a WHO consultant and Social Psychiatry lecturer at the Udine University 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) Country Office in Iran which is 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 Italian team who had visited some of TUMS psychiatric and mental health centers and had been briefed about the health system 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”.
As Dr. Kazemzadeh Atoufi, the WHO Collaboration Center's mental health expert at Tehran Psychiatry Institute said in an interview, the meeting ensued two visits by Iranian psychiatrists to Italy to witness the system in practice where they had been lectured by the two Italian psychiatrists there.
He said deinstitualization was a humanistic approach to psychiatry and this approach shows confinements in isolation wards in psychiatric hospitals is outdated. He emphasized that in this model the patient is managed in the community and it removes the stigma of being a psychiatric patient.
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