You wander along the avenues with silk trees, find the old fountain with Hertz in the Venetian lion, can observe cormorants and long -rowed runners, which are called Cavalieri D’Talia. On the island of nine hectares of Lazazartto Nuovo, Venice works, noisy and crowded Serenissima all year round, very rural and provincial.
Highlights and monks settled here, until the Venetian Senate found small islands in the lagoon as a buffer against any threats to the city. At the end of the 16th century, he installed a quarantine station on Nuovo Lazzastto, for travelers from the Ottoman Empire and Cyprus, in which infectious diseases, such as the plague, were suspected.
According to the Austrian rule, Lazzaretto Nuovo was expanded to the military base and was used as such by the Italian fleet until 1975. The buildings broke up, but recently the initiatives of civil society recently restored the elongated main house and created ways to teach natural history. Colorful shrubs of Salzmarshen are passed by an old wall on the horizon. The famous silhouette of the historical center arises against the setting sun.
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An excursion to the only half of the same large dignity, a brick, like a ruler, is just as. Today, San Servolo is used by the Venice International University as a meeting point for members of the university from around the world. This island also moved through a career from the monastery to a military hospital in order to stay away in the era of Austrian Hubsburg under the leadership of the “alienists” (psychiatrist) of “mental illness”, such as hysteria, melancholy and dementia of Venice. The very beautiful DI MANICOMIO DI San Servolo museum resembles the fate of this “madman”, which was locked on a small island since the end of the 19th century.
The exhibited device demonstrates the path of early processing methods, such as bathrooms from 12 to 15 hours in more than 30 degrees of warm water, insulin lines, forced jackets and electrical impacts for a “moderate” procedure with dasin electricity and psychotropic.
Are considered psychiatric objects of research
Patients arrived from all over Veneto, Dalmatia and Tyrol during the rule of Habsburg. They have always been seen as psychiatric objects of research, up to anatomical exercises on their corpses, in the chapel there is still a dissection table. A long frieze shows a portrait of unfortunate patients whose suffering sharply contrasts with an idyllic environment.
Working groups are today compiled in an attractive garden and leveled with wedding parties. The Roba da Matti restaurant can also be found in the room, which literally means “material for the crazy” and in colloquial speech for “Incredible!” Or “this is madness!” Used.
In the garden of the San Servolo, the treatment of labor dependence, as in sewing, blacksmiths, a printed workshop and a furniture workshop, was later musical and group therapy were also proposed. The methods became more humane, but there were also abuses of protective faces. The exhibition of the exhibition of the same torture tools, in an affiliated institutional pharmacy, can be seen ships with plants, pills and pastes, which were prescribed by patients of both sexes.
Radical rethinking of psychiatry
Radical changes were derived with the movement of antipsychiatraists around Friest, Franco Basalya, which was practiced in Trieste, which in May 1978 applied the famous law 178, which largely broke up closed institutions. Wide social outrage against the conditions in closed institutions was also useful, caused by the film “One flew over the cuckoo nest” since 1975.
Basalya and colleagues such as Thomas Zash, David Cooper and R.D. Ling was called to radical rethinking: while classical institutional psychiatry, for example, in the San Serment, wanted to force patients with exceptional guardianship and hierarchical management, an attempt to perceive them as equal. Instead of the gross methods documented in the rank of sedition, psychotropic drugs are currently used, and weaker electrotherapy, against depression, schizophrenia, psychoses, induced by the drug, and compulsive disorders and neuroleptic incidents are also prescribed.
Thus, Museo di Manicomio represents medical therapeutic progress in the 20th century on a small scale. At the same time, the current warning is not pronounced not only for medicines, that is, not to consider all human conditions as medical problems – or, as it happens in dictatorships, even expel unpleasant oppositions in psychiatric institutions.