# The Man Who Closed the Asylums

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- Authors: [John Foot](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-foot)
- Publisher: verso
- ISBN: 978-17-8478-416-4
- Pages: 432
- Published: 2023-08-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

When the wind of the 1960s blew through the world of psychiatry In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place...