[Current psychiatric problems at the Congress of the Società Freniatrica Italiana in Genoa (1904)].

At the beginning of XX century the new nosographic concepts expressed by Kräpelin were introduced in our country where, at an other side, the first asylum and psychiatric law was approved. At the XII Congress of the S.F.I. in Genoa many present problems in different fields of psychiatry (social psychiatry, psychiatric organization, neurology and psychiatry, somatic and mental etiology of psychiatric diseases, nosography, restraint, isolation, alcoholism) have been debated and original views have been expressed by some authors.