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San Servolo, l’île des fous

San Servolo, the island of mad people

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Ayant d’abord accueilli un monastère, l’île de San Servolo, située entre la place Saint-Marc et le Lido, a ensuite abrité un hôpital militaire avant de recueillir les aliénés de Venise à partir de l’époque napoléonienne. Surnommée « l’île des fous » par les Vénitiens, elle a vu ses derniers malades mentaux partir à la fin des années 1970 à la suite de la fermeture des hôpitaux psychiatriques en Italie à l’initiative de Franco Basaglia. Par la suite, l’île a été transformée en un centre universitaire international et abrite le musée de l’hôpital psychiatrique de San Servolo.

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A monastery was first constructed in San Servolo, an island situated between San Marco and the Lido, then a military hospital. Mad people from Venice were accommodated there from the Napoleonian period to the end of the 1970’s, when psychiatric hospitals were closed due to the “Basaglia law”. San Servolo hosts now an international university center and the Museum of Mental Hospital.

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Granger, B. San Servolo, l’île des fous. Psychiatr Sci Hum Neurosci 7, 181–184 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11836-009-0093-3

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