Tom Burns is Professor Emeritus of Social Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and Honorary Professor of Psychiatry at University College London. He has published eight books and over 300 papers. Our Necessary Shadow: The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry, his book on psychiatry for the general reader, was published by Penguin in 2014. He was awarded the CBE in 2006 for services to mental health care. Professor John Foot's work focuses predominantly on contemporary Italy. He has published research in urban history, the history of sport, and memory studies, often directed at the general reader. From 2010 he carried out research, funded by the Wellcome Trust, into the life and work of the radical psychiatrist Franco Basaglia. This led to the publication of his book, The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care. Professor Foot is currently working on a history of Italian fascism.

• 1: John Foot: Franco Basaglia: A Man, A Movement, Institutions and Outcomes 2: Oisín Wall: Basaglia and the British anti-psychiatrists: Two radically different projects, 1960-70 3: Roberto Mezzina: Basaglia after Basaglia: Recovery, human rights, and Trieste today 4: Angelo Fioritti: Basaglia s legacy and italian mental healthcare today 5: Benedetto Saraceno and Sashi P. Sashidharan: Basaglia s international influence 6: José Miguel Caldas de-Almeida: The impact of Basaglia and the Italian psychiatric reform in Latin America 7: Ernesto Venturini, Maria Stella Brandão Goulart, and Paulo Amarante: The optimism of practice: Impacts of Basaglia's thoughts on Brazil 8: Diana Mauri and Alejandra Barcala: From the asylum to community mental health services: The path to human rights 9: Víctor Aparicio Basauri: Spain: The critical movements and the influence of Franco Basaglia and Democratic Psychiatry 10: Theodoros Megaloeconomou: Franco Basaglia's influence on the Greek mental health system 11: Tom Burns: The UK s rejection of Basaglia 12: Brendan D. Kelly: Franco Basaglia: Another Conspicuous Non-Event in the History of Psychiatry in Irelanda 13: Helen Spandler: Asylum: a magazine for Democratic Psychiatry in England 14: Chantal Marazia, Heiner Fangerau, Thomas Becker, and Felicitas Söhner: Visions of Another World : Franco Basaglia and the German Reform 15: Jacek Moskalewicz, Grazyna Herczynska, and Katarzyna Prot-Klinger: Has the spirit of Basaglia affected Polish psychiatrya 16: Gemma Blok: A spectre for some, a Mecca for others: The impact of Basaglia in the Netherlands 17: Nicolas Henckes and Anne M. Lovell: Basaglia in France: The marginality of exemplarity 18: Vito Flaker, Vladimir Jovi?, Nata a Cvetkovi? Jovi?, and Andreja Rafaeli?: Borderline Deinstitutionalisation: Yugoslav Resonance and Dissonance with Basaglia 19: Robert Okin: The Trieste Model: Obstacles to Replication in San Francisco 20: Alain Topor: Deinstitutionalisation, welfare state and social engineering: Basaglia in the Swedish context 21: Tom Burns and John Foot: Making sense of Basaglia:Cross-cutting themes and unresolved issues

Tom Burns is Professor Emeritus of Social Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and Honorary Professor of Psychiatry at University College London. He has published eight books and over 300 papers. Our Necessary Shadow: The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry, his book on psychiatry for the general reader, was published by Penguin in 2014. He was awarded the CBE in 2006 for services to mental health care. Professor John Foot's work focuses predominantly on contemporary Italy. He has published research in urban history, the history of sport, and memory studies, often directed at the general reader. From 2010 he carried out research, funded by the Wellcome Trust, into the life and work of the radical psychiatrist Franco Basaglia. This led to the publication of his book, The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care. Professor Foot is currently working on a history of Italian fascism.

• 1: John Foot: Franco Basaglia: A Man, A Movement, Institutions and Outcomes 2: Oisín Wall: Basaglia and the British anti-psychiatrists: Two radically different projects, 1960-70 3: Roberto Mezzina: Basaglia after Basaglia: Recovery, human rights, and Trieste today 4: Angelo Fioritti: Basaglia s legacy and italian mental healthcare today 5: Benedetto Saraceno and Sashi P. Sashidharan: Basaglia s international influence 6: José Miguel Caldas de-Almeida: The impact of Basaglia and the Italian psychiatric reform in Latin America 7: Ernesto Venturini, Maria Stella Brandão Goulart, and Paulo Amarante: The optimism of practice: Impacts of Basaglia's thoughts on Brazil 8: Diana Mauri and Alejandra Barcala: From the asylum to community mental health services: The path to human rights 9: Víctor Aparicio Basauri: Spain: The critical movements and the influence of Franco Basaglia and Democratic Psychiatry 10: Theodoros Megaloeconomou: Franco Basaglia's influence on the Greek mental health system 11: Tom Burns: The UK s rejection of Basaglia 12: Brendan D. Kelly: Franco Basaglia: Another Conspicuous Non-Event in the History of Psychiatry in Irelanda 13: Helen Spandler: Asylum: a magazine for Democratic Psychiatry in England 14: Chantal Marazia, Heiner Fangerau, Thomas Becker, and Felicitas Söhner: Visions of Another World : Franco Basaglia and the German Reform 15: Jacek Moskalewicz, Grazyna Herczynska, and Katarzyna Prot-Klinger: Has the spirit of Basaglia affected Polish psychiatrya 16: Gemma Blok: A spectre for some, a Mecca for others: The impact of Basaglia in the Netherlands 17: Nicolas Henckes and Anne M. Lovell: Basaglia in France: The marginality of exemplarity 18: Vito Flaker, Vladimir Jovi?, Nata a Cvetkovi? Jovi?, and Andreja Rafaeli?: Borderline Deinstitutionalisation: Yugoslav Resonance and Dissonance with Basaglia 19: Robert Okin: The Trieste Model: Obstacles to Replication in San Francisco 20: Alain Topor: Deinstitutionalisation, welfare state and social engineering: Basaglia in the Swedish context 21: Tom Burns and John Foot: Making sense of Basaglia:Cross-cutting themes and unresolved issues