摘要：Not a long time ago, a terzetto of well-known Italians – the psychiatrist Peppe Dell'Acqua, the journalist and essay writer Nico Petrella, and the philosopher Pier Aldo Rovatti – started an interesting series of mono-graphs entitled "180"; i.e., the number of the 1978 Ital-ian law which prescribed the phasing out of psychiatric hospitals, the creation of small psychiatric units in gen-eral hospitals for the short-term care of acute patients, and the development of community Mental Health Ser-vices (MHSs). The book in this series reviewed here, by Izabel Marin (a social worker who came from Brazil for a period of training in Trieste's MHS, but ended up taking root in the Julian city) and Silva Bon (a histo-rian with a difficult personal history of mental disorder ending up in recovery), is of considerable interest from both a theoretical and a practical viewpoint. In fact, it provides a thorough analysis of recovery processes in patients with severe mental disorders, who have long been considered as incurable and therefore were often hospitalized for long periods, or even for the rest of their lifetimes
