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Fifty years have passed since, inside the then Trieste Psychiatric Hospital, a fundamental adventure in the transformation of the mental health system began. Psychiatry, from a discipline of control, accepted the challenge to become prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of mental suffering. Labor, from occupational therapy, became the right an originator of citizenship. Psychiatric services, from total institutions, spread out in the territories, facing the discomfort in everyday life to generate enabling responses to the people and communities in which is present. A protagonist of those events and of what came out of them, the Author proposes a "reflective" memoir with the purpose of give indications for the uncertain situation of the Italian mental health system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Europe is not the one described by contemporary scholars and philosophers who have developed paths of meaning in Philosophy as well as in Literature. Even the definition of “Europe” and “European thought” can open up debates and wounds. However, although the question "which Europe?" cannot perhaps be solved, it is nevertheless necessary to continue to interrogate ourselves, with the aim of understanding our world as a reality to be constructed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through psychoanalysis Freud discovers, at the end of The Nineteenth Century, a kind of communication typical of the unconscious of the hysteric patients, of dreams in so called normal subjects and in the processes of narration and especially of poetry. Condensation and displacement, at the basis of the dream work, are typical of the metaphorical and metonymic processes of dreams, of symptoms and of poetry. Freud finds himself in a terrain that privileges, within the discourse of the cure, the same logic that his patients have taught him: the free associations at the margins of the formations of dreams follow the same unpredictable and fantastic paths in dreams as in symptom formation, in which sense can be issued by the strangest connections. A different logic from the one governing daily rationality or left-brain connections, closer to the illogic of the poets and of folly, or of the primary processes of the right brain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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