Italy On This Day

Doctor was torn between literature and his patients Tobino combined his work in mental health with a literary career The author and poet who...

Work led to closure of mental hospitals by law Franco Basaglia was destined for an academic career until the University of Padua deeme...

Professor among founding fathers of Italian psychiatry Andrea Verga was one of the first to see how criminal behaviour could be driven ...

Professor who first encouraged study of criminal mind Cesare Lombroso changed the way the world thought about criminals Cesare Lo...

Harsh imprisonment sparked new psychiatric theories Roberto Assagioli, the pioneering psychiatrist who founded the science of psy...