Gigi De Palo, General Director of Angelini Foundation; Fabrizio Starace, President of the Italian Society of Psychiatric Epidemiology; Michele Zanetti, former President of the Province of Trieste and promoter together with Franco Basaglia of Law 180. Introduction by Marco Bertoli, Director of the Department of Addictions and Mental Health of the University Health Authority Friuli Centrale. Video greeting by Devora Kestel, Director of the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse in Geneva.

The experience of suffering requires someone to share it. When Franco Basaglia arrived in Gorizia in 1961, he noticed the ugliness of the asylum, its brutality, and vulgarity. He found help to close an inhumane chapter. This happened in Trieste, where Michele Zanetti joined him, and together they began another story, this time made of recognizing human dignity, sharing, and openness. What does that revolutionary event teach us today? It continues to indicate the need for patience, closeness, and attention, which we find in new intervention practices, in the constant awareness of renewed humanity, in a delicate attempt at understanding, and in a shared programming between users, families, and operators. It is the experience of compassion by Franco Basaglia and many professionals today that transform psychiatry into an inclusive, dignified mental health project woven with inalienable rights.