LA SALUTE MENTALE IN CAMPANIA. La lezione di Piro, il tradimento della riforma/MENTAL CARE IN CAMPANIA. The lesson of Piro, a betrayed reform

Abstract

At the light of the data offered by the Italian Society of Psychiatry (SIEP), Campania was in 2017 one of the worst Italian Regions in the field of mental health care. This paper sketches the evolution of the mental health policies in Campania since the promulgation of Law 180, analysing the consequences of bad political choices which has taken so early as the 1980s. These choices were denounced with foresight by one of the great protagonists of Italian anti-institutional Psychiatry, namely Sergio Piro. Unfortunately, Piro’s prediction shave comes true. But the gravity of the problems becoming the object of shared awareness and one may hope that the reconstruction of the past and present deficiencies can be helpful to individuate the points of most urgent intervention.

Keywords:
Sergio Piro, Psychiatric Reform, Mental Health Services.