Language
English
Psychiatry and the Eastern Border
It is a day in mid-November 1961 when Franco Basaglia enters a mental asylum for the first time. It is the psychiatric hospital of Gorizia, on the easternmost edge of Italy, and one of its walls coincides with the border: on the other side is Yugoslavia, we are in the midst of the Cold War. Among the hundreds of people hospitalized, many are of Slovenian origin and one of the first tasks that the new director sets himself is to find interpreters to overcome the language barrier and communicate with them, even with those who have not spoken for years. In this symbolic place (where a revolution in psychiatry will begin) a border divides the states and languages, but...
Remembrance Day as seen by Italians in Croatia and Slovenia
February 10 is the Day of Remembrance, a celebration established in Italy in 2004 to commemorate the victims of the foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian exodus. The historical reconstruction of that period and those events is among the most controversial and divisive in Italian history of the last century. Between instrumentalizations, distortions and artfully partial narratives, the analysis of that period almost always leaves the historical context to invade the sphere of politics – very often in the least noble sense of the term. by Pietro Aleotti - 10/02/2021 Source: EastJournal Opening that chapter still means finding oneself in the midst of a clash between opposing...
