Foot John
University of Bristol
Hist Psychiatry. 2015 Mar;26(1):19-35. doi: 10.1177/0957154X14550136.
In the 1960s Franco Basaglia, the Director of a Psychiatric Hospital in a small city on the edge of Italy (Gorizia), began to transform that institution from the inside. He introduced patient meetings and set up a kind of Therapeutic Community. In 1968 he asked two photographers - Carla Cerati and Gianni Berengo Gardin - to take photos inside Gorizia and other asylums. These images were then used in a photobook called Morire di Classe (To Die Because of your Class) (1969). This article re-examines in detail the content of this celebrated book and its history, and its impact on the struggle to reform and abolish large-scale psychiatric institutions. It also places the book in its social and political context and as a key text of the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s.
20世纪60年代，位于意大利边缘小城（戈里齐亚）的一家精神病院院长弗朗哥·巴萨利亚开始从内部对该机构进行改造。他引入了患者会议，并建立了一种治疗社区。1968年，他邀请两位摄影师——卡拉·切拉蒂和詹尼·贝伦戈·加尔丁——在戈里齐亚及其他精神病院里拍照。这些照片随后被用于一本名为《阶级之死》（1969年）的摄影书中。本文详细重新审视了这本著名书籍的内容及其历史，以及它对改革和废除大型精神病院斗争的影响。它还将这本书置于其社会和政治背景中，并将其视为20世纪60年代反精神病学运动的关键文本。
