Tag: Psychiatric hospital

• The madness behind the bars:prisons as asylums

  14 Mar 2013

  Psichiatria, Senza categoria

  Cesare Beccaria, Crime, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-5, Italy, Mental disorder, Psychiatric hospital, United States Department of Justice

  Domenico Fargnoli The public does not have the correct perception of the psychiatric emergency involving  Italy which has ties to a more general situation. Writes Amanda Pustilnik (University of Maryland) “Today, our largest psychiatric hospitals are prisons. (…) The state prisons spend about $ 5 billion to incarcerate inmates suffering from mental illness, who are…