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I began to write this introduction at the end of 1993 when I had just come back from a journey that took me to Turin (in Italy) and Kiev (in Ukraine). In Turin we were celebrating the achievements of Italian psychiatric reformers in Grulisaco and Colegno, two large ex-hospitals on the outskirts of that metropolis, with a conference entitled Recomincare di Essere (Re-beginning to Be). In Kiev we were visiting psychiatric facilities as part of a fact-finding tour aimed at establishing social work in Ukraine, as one step towards reforming Ukrainian psychiatry and society.
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Ramon, S. (1996). Introduction. In: Mental Health in Europe. Issues in Mental Health. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24811-7_1
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