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Pietro Pisani e la Real Casa dei Matti (1824-1837)
Cusumano Nicolasubject
Settore M-STO/02 - Storia ModernaCure of madness Bourbon administration Real Casa dei Mattidescription
he essay reconstructs the story linked to the foundation of the Real Casa dei Matti in Palermo, whose project was entrusted in 1824 to Baron Pietro Pisani. After a first part aimed at reconstructing Pisani's biographical profile and his role in the Bourbon administrative organization chart, a second part articulates the way in which ‘moral therapy’ was developed in Sicily. The essay allows us to observe - in a perspective that considers the theoretical contexts of psychiatry and the institutions for the treatment of mental illness in Eu- rope - how the aristocrat, in a moment characterized by the first success of psychiatric medicine, ended up marginalizing the role of doctors by centralizing a large part of the prerogatives of the treatment of insanity on themselves.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-01 |