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There used to be the City of Fools, the nuthouse. A city filled with horrors. Strap-own cots, restraining jackets, electroshock treatments, nurse-wardens and patients-prisoners, sadistic relationships between doctors and patients. It wasn‘t a place to heal but a place for segregation, a place to hide the shame of the mentally ill. Up until 1960, no one had ever questioned mental institutions, no one had ever confronted the power of psychiatry. Not until a young small town rebel psychiatrist from Northern Italy who worked on the sidelines of the psychiatric world, lit the spark that turned into a fire: his name was Franco Basaglia.