Italian Fascism Forgotten LGBT Victims Asylums and Internment 1922 1943 1st Edition by Gabriella 1350377112 9781350377110

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• ISBN 10: 1350377112
• ISBN 13: 9781350377110
• Author: Gabriella Romano

This book examines the question of the repression of LGBT people through psychiatry during the fascist regime in Italy, a subject that has not been investigated until now. It draws together the substantial archival record of patients, doctors and fascist authorities to reconstruct intricate behind-the-scenes dialogue, and to document one of the ways in which the regime repressed LGBT lives in this period. Italian Fascism’s Forgotten LGBT Victims focusses on three different psychiatric hospitals in three parts of the country – Rome, Florence and the small Calabrian town of Girifalco, which had different attitudes and therapeutic approaches. Archive research results are contextualised within the psychiatric theory of the time, highlighting the existing discrepancies between theory and daily routine practice of mental health institutions in Italy during the regime. Using a variety of sources, Gabriella Romano expands current knowledge of the history of Italian psychiatry, and, in doing so, she also touches a number of crucial issues of medical history, history of Fascism and queer history. Most importantly, this original and well-documented study sheds light on the life stories of ordinary LGBT individuals and their families under the fascist regime, a topic that is still mostly unexplored.

Table of contents:

Part I Psychiatric Theory

1 Main influences on Italian psychiatric theories on homosexuality during the fascist regime

Main foreign influences: Austria, Germany, France and Spain

Influences of Italian theory of the previous decades

Other influences

2 Italian psychiatric theories on homosexuality published during the fascist regime

Part II Psychiatric Practice

3 The Rome asylum, Santa Maria della Pietà: Quiet disobedience

Brief history of the institution

Fascist times: The asylum structure, its directors and staff

Specific methodological issues

Homosexual patients

Conclusions

4 The Florence asylum, San Salvi: Precarious balance

Brief history of the institution

Fascist times: The asylum structure, its directors and staff

Specific methodological issues

Homosexual patients

Conclusions

5 The Girifalco asylum: ‘A grave for the living’

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