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Mental-health care: Italy's psychiatric renaissance

Andrea Tone admires the history of a radical shift in the treatment of mental illness.

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Tone, A. Mental-health care: Italy's psychiatric renaissance. Nature 524, 290 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/524290a

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  1. Mental places need closed remember asylums people have died from mental medication little boys grew tits no one good would dope a child for being hyper its basically any who hear GOD is a schitzophrenic and we have religous rights our constitution declaration people wrote if you take a gift from the king you aint an american and freedom in religous beliefs i shouldnt consider you an american if you doped someone with mental medication or beat them up you can be deported

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