PSYCHIATRIC REFORM DEBATE CONTINUED

This chapter employs a range of previously untapped sources to paint a detailed picture of how the so-called Renaissance of the Twelfth Century reshaped computistical literature and spawned the first blossoming of a calendar-reform debate in the Latin Christian world. Major points of discussion are the introduction of astronomical tables as instruments for analysing calendrical error, the discovery of the lunar calendars used by Muslims and Jews as potential alternatives to the Church’s own 19-year cycle, and the adoption of a new understanding of the nature of the solar year, in particular the influential theory of the ‘access and recess of the eighth sphere’ and its prediction of a variable tropical year.

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“Red Saxony!”

10.1093/oso/9780199668786.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

James Retallack

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Political Society ◽

Social Democrats ◽

Reform Debate

The long build-up to the Reichstag elections of 1903 produced a dramatic outcome when Social Democrats scored an overwhelming victory. The epithet “Red Saxony” was born overnight, and thereafter it remained a triumphal shout for Social Democrats and a nightmare for their enemies. This chapter begins by examining the 1903 election in its local, regional, and national contexts. The SPD’s organizational strength and élan are considered in light of the shock this election produced. The election also restarted a suffrage reform debate that convulsed Saxon political society until 1909. The Saxon government presented a complicated, hybrid suffrage proposal at the end of 1903. It was torpedoed by the anti-socialist parties in the Landtag. But by 1905 this defense of Saxony’s three-class suffrage had confounded National Liberal attempts to challenge Conservative hegemony, and it fueled further working-class protests.

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2. Psychopathology and social performance in a cohort of patients with schizophrenic psychoses. A seven-year follow-up study

Psychological Medicine Monograph Supplement ◽

10.1017/s0264180100000242 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 19 ◽

pp. 17-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

G. Mignolli ◽

C. Faccincani ◽

S. Platt

Keyword(s):

Social Performance ◽

Psychiatric Reform ◽

Quantitative Evidence ◽

Follow Up Study ◽

The World

The Italian psychiatric reform has attracted much interest and controversy around the world. While quantitative evidence on its implementation has already been provided (Tansella et al. 1987; de Girolamo, 1989), studies of the effects of the reform on patients are lacking.

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COLLATERAL DAMAGE

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.97.1.78 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 97 (1) ◽

pp. 78-78

Author(s):

Alain Joffe

Keyword(s):

Welfare Reform ◽

Welfare System ◽

Welfare Recipients ◽

Collateral Damage ◽

Dependent Children ◽

Free Riders ◽

Reform Debate

As the welfare-reform debate begins to boil, the place to begin is with an elemental fact: no child in America asked to be here. Each was summoned into existence by the acts of adults. And no child is going to be spiritually improved by being collateral damage in a bombardment of severities targeted at adults who may or may not deserve more severe treatment from the welfare system. Phil Gramm says welfare recipients are people "in the wagon" who ought to get out and "help the rest of us pull." Well. Of the 14 million people receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children, 9 million are children. Even if we get all these free-riders into wee harnesses, the wagon will not move much faster.

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Riforma psichiatrica e psicoterapia sistemica. Continuitŕ, sviluppi, problemi aperti

PSICOBIETTIVO ◽

10.3280/psob2008-003005 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 47-64

Author(s):

Luigi Onnis

Keyword(s):

Public Services ◽

Health Workers ◽

Psychiatric Hospitals ◽

Mental Health Workers ◽

Basic Principles ◽

Psychiatric Reform ◽

The Public ◽

Italian Law ◽

New Interpretation ◽

Systemic Psychotherapy

- The Author, in this paper, first of all reconstructs the essential historical phases of the theoretical and practical renewal process which preceded and accompanied the 180 law approval, that established the psychiatric hospitals closing. He then describes the Italian psychiatric reform characteristics, underlining how it produces the emerging of needs of new interpretation and intervention methods about psychic sufference: in this perspective psychotherapy has a crucial role and the italian law in psychotherapeutic training regulation is a further support. Particularly systemic psychotherapy proposes common basic principles with regard to the psychiatric reform and can represent an useful instrument for developping innovative concepts and practices. Finally the Authors put critically in evidence the problems still unresolved, not only concerning the need of a full application of the reform law, with the creation of territorial services and structures where they are still lacking or insufficient, but, over all, promoting the diffusion into the public services of a psychotherapeutic culture and practice.Key Words: Italian Psychiatric Reform, Law 180, Systemic Psychotherapy, Psychotherapeutic Culture, Public Services, Mental Health Workers Formation.Parole chiave: riforma psichiatrica italiana, legge 180, psicoterapia sistemica, cultura psicoterapeutica, servizi pubblici, formazione degli operatori.

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