Episodios

  • Episode 47- Activism, construction and destruction

    Episode 47- Activism, construction and destruction
    Feb 16 2026
    Harry Dyson from McPin joins Vincenzo to discuss the current challenges of activism and change in the UK landscape. How does the implementation of 24/7 neighbourhood centres, based on Trieste's services, change the way Basaglian activism should approach the problems of our mental health system? What is the relation between building something new and the destruction of what was there before?

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    1 h y 6 m
  • Episode 46 - Accountability within questionable rules

    Episode 46 - Accountability within questionable rules
    Dec 17 2024
    In this episode Vincenzo looks into the way a mental health system based on theoretically flawed rules about safety affects an overarching system of rules which exist to make people accountable for what they do. This creates significant dilemmas for any Basaglian.

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    32 m
  • episode 45 - New dilemmas as the Basaglia debate changes in the UK, plus thoughts on BPD...

    episode 45 - New dilemmas as the Basaglia debate changes in the UK, plus thoughts on BPD...
    Mar 29 2024
    In this episode, I discuss the new dilemmas I'm facing as the so called "Trieste model" increases its visibility across the UK. What should we do about activists who support the approach on paper, but end up advocating for its opposite in practice?
    On top of this, I also talk about the abolition of the personality disorder label, particularly in relation to borderline personality disorder.

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    33 m
  • Episode 44 - Michael's story. A service user perspective on Scottish mental health services

    Episode 44 - Michael's story. A service user perspective on Scottish mental health services
    Sep 5 2023
    Michael joins Vincenzo to talk about his experience of mental health services in Scotland, over time. We discuss how services, by understanding suffering as a risk, end up caring mostly about dangerousness. This means that those in crisis are often met with a repressive approach, and those who are not considered dangerous are often met with a neglectful approach.

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    48 m
  • Episode 43, Sara London and the Performance Therapist

    Episode 43, Sara London and the Performance Therapist
    Aug 28 2023
    Sara London joins Vincenzo to disucuss her upcoming book: "The Performance Therapist and Authentic Therapeutic Identity: Coming Into Being".
    We discuss why it's important in the current context, with psychotherapists having to measure themselves with a role that involves much more than just technical knowledge. We also discuss how the concepts of art and science are intertwined.
    Read the book! And feel free to subscribe at the link below:

    https://saralondon.substack.com/

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    47 m
  • The Italian #mentalhealth reform, a Psychiatrist's perspective

    The Italian #mentalhealth reform, a Psychiatrist's perspective
    Dec 18 2022
    Dr Micol Ascoli and I meet again to discuss the principles and history behind "law 180" and the Italian mental health reform, as well as its content and how it works. We discuss how it's different from UK legislation and what other systems could learn from it. Vincenzo has already introduced this topic in episode 10, so that episode is a good introduction to this one. On this occasion, Micol offers an important perspective on this, as a Psychiatrist who has knowledge of both the British and Italian mental health systems.

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    1 h y 13 m
  • Episode 41 - The functions of bureaucracy in British #mentalhealth institutions

    Episode 41 - The functions of bureaucracy in British #mentalhealth institutions
    Nov 20 2022
    British and Italian Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist Micol Ascoli joins Vincenzo to talk about her experience of working in Uk mental health services, and about how we both experienced moving from a Basaglian background and system in Italy to the UK context. This conversation happens in the context of a range of mental health care scandals which have been recently in the news in the Uk. Bureaucracy is an interesting lens through which the crisis, and the system's response to it, can be understood.

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    46 m
  • Episode 40 - Franco Basaglia, Multi-Stakeholding and Political Economy

    Episode 40 - Franco Basaglia, Multi-Stakeholding and Political Economy
    Nov 15 2022
    Jerome joins Vincenzo to talk about his interest in ways of organising the economy that are based on cooperation. During his studies, Jerome became unsatisfied with traditional economic structures and interested in alternatives. Italian social co-operatives were a very interesting example to Jerome and this brought him to learn about Basaglia's interest in using them to build alternative system to the asylum in the community.

    Take a look at Jerome's website:

    econ.coop

    For further information, see the page below:

    https://linktr.ee/jerome.warren

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    43 m