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LA REAL CASA DEI MATTI DI PALERMO E IL MITO LETTERARIO DEL BARONE PISANI
2020
This story is about a government, which considered the management of madness not a medical issue but a matter of law and order, and a 64 years old official who became the director of a madhouse having no medical nor managing expertise in mental disease, but just humanity and dedication. But most of all its the story of their attempt to project an image of themselves and of what they had done, that turned out in something completely different: a literary myth which went so far to reach the pen of Alexandre Dumas and Edgar Allan Poe.
Pietro Pisani e la Real Casa dei Matti (1824-1837)
2021
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 centralizi…