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Psychiatry in Genoa

Liguria Section of the Italian Society of Psychiatry, Piazza Marsala 1/11A, 16122 Genoa, Italy chiclana{at}fastwebnet.it

C. S. Breathnach

The most important lines in the history of Genoese psychiatry are presented. Eight milestones can be identified: (1) the construction of the first madhouse in 1841; (2) the continual increase from that period in the number of in-patients, and the lack of adequate accommodation; (3) the beginning of the teaching of psychiatry at the University of Genoa; (4) the stormy debate on the construction of a great madhouse near Cogoleto; (5) the opening of the madhouse at Quarto and the discussion on its enlargement; (6) the attempts to introduce the nonrestraint system at the beginning of nineteenth century; (7) the writing of Camillo Tomei and the work of Luigi Maria Bossi against the abuses of psychiatry; (8) the awakening, beginning in the late 1960s, of interest in psychiatry, the closure of the old Italian asylums, and the birth of community psychiatry in 1978.

Key Words: asylum • Genoa • history • Maragliano • Masini • Morselli • psychiatry

History of Psychiatry, Vol. 15, No. 1, 27-43 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0957154X04039339


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