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asylums before the law Basaglia

Up to the 70s in Italy there were mental hospitals, facilities in which they were confined to the so-called "mentally ill". Patients were forced to stay there until the time of their healing, an event that rarely occurred. The parliamentary investigations carried out in anticipation of the closure determined that too often the people who lived there were subjected to violent practices, harassment or theft of any personal property.