La salute mentale nella prospettiva del welfare di comunità

With greater intensity following the effects produced by the COVID-19 pandemic, mental illnesses, which have always been the last in the economic investments of the Western health care systems, require to be no longer so marginal in national investment programs. The intent of this essay is to offer the reader a broad, albeit not exhaustive, picture of the role that mental health plays in European planning, how psychiatric care has evolved in Italy, and which are the main knots still to be resolved for the issue of mental health to come out of the corner in which it has always been unfortunately confined.