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Freedom is Saturday, December 18 - Opening of the National Campaign for the Abolition of restraint

Freedom is therapeutic Opening National Campaign for the removal of restraints Promoted by Foundation Franca and Franco Basaglia Union National Association for Mental Health Conference-Debate with screenings and readings Council Chamber Royal Palace Cagliari Piazza Palazzo December 18, 2010 17:00 organizes Sardinian Association for the Implementation of the Reform Psychiatric Association November 5 participate Maria Grazia Giannichedda Foundation Franca and Franco Basaglia Gisella Trincas UNASAM Giovanna Del Giudice National Forum Mental Health Joseph Galzerano Committee Franco Mastrogiovanni Francesca Ziccheddu Committee Giuseppe Casu Natasha Casu Committee - Giuseppe Casu Daniel Pulino Foundation Franca and Franco Basaglia During the evening, In the theater, there is the exhibition of paintings by Cristiano Vinci. poetic disquisitions the poet and writer John Mascia. coordinate: Roberto Loddo - President of the Association on November 5 Massimiliano Rais - Journalist Sardegna Uno Free admission Info: ASARP 3381597287 - 331,614,008 Ass.5 November FREEDOM 'AND' THERAPEUTIC Appeal of the National Campaign to abolish the restraints Promoters: Foundation Franca and Franco Basaglia National Union of Associations for Mental Health (UNASAM) CGIL Welfare Department and new rights The restraint is not a medical act is an insult to the dignity of the person who suffers and is a symptom of serious inefficiency and ineffectiveness of the services that adopt it. E 'tied to the bed to die on October 24 Mr. Tullio C., admitted to the psychiatric service of diagnosis and treatment (SPDC) "Grossoni 3" Niguarda Hospital in Milan. We do not know if there is a causal link between his death and restraint: where will the investigators to monitor, as is being done in two criminal trials currently underway, one for the death of Giuseppe Casu, in 2006 while he was hospitalized and SPCD contained in the Holy Trinity of Cagliari, and the other for the death of Franco Mastrogiovanni, which occurred in similar circumstances in 2009, the SPDC of Vallo della Lucania (Salerno). But we are not judges. We are citizens who use or may use the services of mental health and in this capacity we have an opinion issued by the time the restraint is always an offense to dignity of the person who suffers and is an indicator of deficiencies or serious - media, design, culture - that concern and call into question the Department of Mental Health as a whole, not just the SPDC who use restraint as a tool for routine . This is true for much of the public psychiatry, where the restraint is relatively transparent and auditable. But we know that even in private psychiatric clinics, institutions for the elderly in nursing home care and restraint is a frequent practice, and here unfortunately much harder to see, document, control. Not to mention the legal psychiatric hospitals and psychiatric wards prison where we know that the restraint is standard practice. On these issues we want to draw attention to promote this campaign. The objects are all practices of restraint, from physical to what is done with the abuse of drug treatment (the "chemical straitjacket"), the different contexts in which the restraint is in place, and similar justifications ("his" well, the less damage), the growing impoverishment of the services that promotes and reinforces these practices who has never challenged. Of all these issues we discuss in this campaign that will develop over the next year and aims to emergence of the phenomenon in its breadth and depth encouraging testimonies of people who have had the restraint and their family and friends.