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 He is the Head Director of the Publich Mental Health Department in Caltagirone, Catania. He is a psychiatrist, psycotherapist and group –analyst. He holds the position of Vicepresident of the COIRAG psychological school.
Raffaele is honorary president of AIRSAM and former Secretary of Italian Group Analysis Laboratory. He is supervisor of Democratic Therapeutical Communities and Public Mental Health. He was Counselor for the Ministry of Health and for the Sicily’s regional government.
He helds the position of President of the Industrial and Social Development Agency for 10 years. Raffaele is also the author and editor of a number of mental health publications. He co-authored “Group Analysis and Therapeutical Communities”, “ Social Inclusion and Work in Mental Halth”, “Community Psychoteraphy”.
He helped to define the laws and started work inclusion projects. has supported the development of experienced users. He started the first apartment groups, social cooperatives and social farms in Sicily.
He was one of the protagonists of the closure of civil and judicial psychiatric hospitals.
Articles by the author
Therapeutic communities and group analysis
Introduction This paper will review the literature on democratic therapeutic communities and group analysis, and highlight the theoretical and clinical similarities between democratic therapeutic communities and group analysis. The paper will compare classic...
Therapeutic communities enter the world of evidence-based practice
Summary This editorial provides the modern-day context for a long-established psychiatric treatment, democratic therapeutic communities. As this treatment is now such a small field in psychiatry, readers may not have enough background to be able to place the research...
Learning from Action method on the boundary between the GR and the TCs’ culture
Introduction and roots | Dia 1, 2 and 3 This documents stems from my desire to reflect on the Learning from Action method that's an innovative exploration of GR event, and its meaning in the Group Relations and Therapeutic Communities cultures, following from R....
List of publications
Il quotidiano nella residenzialitĂ psichiatrica, Catania, CUEMC, 1994, p. 100
Il volo dell’airone, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2000, p. 191
Residenze per la salute mentale. Nuove politiche in psichiatria, Matera, Progetto Popolare Atti Congresso Airsam, 1996, p. 79
I percorsi per l’inclusione sociale. Dalla progettazione alla realizzazione, Caltagirone, Accademia della Piazza, 2001, p. 178
Cantieri Aperti: societĂ locale e salute mentale, Caltagirone, Accademia della Piazza, 2002, p. 92
Salute Mentale e sviluppo di comunitĂ , Catania, CUECM, 2004, p. 31
Sviluppo locale partecipato e sostenibile: Territorio, interazioni e reti sociali, Padova, Cleup, 2006, p. 326
Gruppoanalisi e comunitĂ terapeutica. Uno strumento di lavoro basato su supervisione, valutazione e ricerca, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2010, p. 208
Psicoterapia di comunitĂ . Clinica della partecipazione e politiche di salute mentale, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2010, p. 320
L’inclusione sociale e lavorativa in salute mentale, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2013, p.335
Azioni e risultati di sistema del Progetto Obiettivo: TIPS-Servizio Comunitario IPS-SE per l’inclusione socio-lavorativa dei pazienti con grave patologia mentale, ASP Catania, ASP Siracusa, Ediemme, 2014, p. 81
Gruppoanalisi e sostegno all’Abitare, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2014, p. 256
Valutazione dei gruppi comunitari in salute mentale, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2014, p. 220