Franco Basaglia (1924—1980): Three Decades (1979—2009) as a Bridge Between the Italian and Brazilian Mental Health Reform

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JP Machado-de-Sousa and J. Crippa , Department of Neuroscience and Behaviour, University of São Paulo, Brazil and INCT Translational Medicine , Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.