An old mental hospital sits in Trieste's San Giovanni Park. The facility closed over 40 years ago, but its ocher pavilions are filled with activity. (Sylvia Poggioli | NPR) TRIESTE, Italy — An old ...

The right-wing regional government of north-eastern Italy has, as feared, begun dismantling its globally renowned system of community psychiatry, known as the “Trieste model”, widely celebrated as one ...

The Trieste model has fascinated the mental health care community for close to five decades. It contrasts starkly with many other parts of the world that make much greater use of psychiatric ...

Trieste has a reputed approach to bringing people with mental illnesses out of hospitals and into the community. Now the region's hard-right... A public mental health model in Italy earns global ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the psychiatric emergency unit in Trieste’s general hospital, the door is always open. Coercion and ...

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TRIESTE, Italy — An old mental hospital sits in Trieste's San Giovanni Park alongside a large rose garden that stretches up a hill over the city. The facility closed over 40 years ago, but its ocher ...