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PREMESSA.

Redarre un elenco di pubblicazioni (libri, diari, articoli su riviste) di autori italiani in cui  si descrivano le proprie personali esperienze nel manicomio è a dir poco un'impresa proibitiva. Escludendo i casi di personalità del mondo artistico e della letteratura (ad es. la Merini), per il resto quello che è possibile reperire, ad es. consultando il catalogo on-line dello SBN (Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale), è davvero poca cosa. Abbiamo comunque limitato la nostra ricerca ai libri pubblicati in Italia (escludendo ad es., gli articoli su riviste o sulla stampa), ed abbiamo altresì escluso le opere in cui un autore riporti, nel contesto di una sua opera, stralci  di testimonianze in prima persona di pazienti manicomiali, dato che in questo caso non si può parlare di opere autobiografiche.

Abbiamo cercato poi di definire delle tipologie 'autobiografiche'.  Quella numericamente (si fa per dire) più rappresentata è data dal libro curato da un ricercatore del campo che in qualità di curatore presenta l'autore dell'autobiografia, ne descrive la storia ed arricchisce il testo di note esplicative. Insomma il curatore finisce per rivestire il ruolo di interprete, più o meno diretto, della storia e del testo proposto al lettore.  Ne abbiamo degli esempi sin dal XIX secolo: ad es., nel catalogo SBN abbiamo reperito un tal tipo di opera curata da Enrico Morselli, che viene citata nell'elenco qui sotto.

Anche le autobiografie di Tomasich, della Conti Adalgisa, della Tea degli omonimi quaderni, quelle raccolte da Matassa e Morandini fanno parte della stessa tipologia.

Molto più rare invece sono le opere in cui questa mediazione culturale non è dato reperirla, ma è il paziente che si racconta in prima persona senza che qualcuno lo presenti e lo proponga al pubblico dei lettori. Ci riferiamo in particolare alle due opere di Marescalchi e della Lizza che, per la loro unicità nel panorama italiano, ci sono sembrate degne di essere non solo qui citate, ma anche riproposte in maniera più dettagliata in questo numero della rivista "Frenis Zero".

Ed infine una nota su "Il glicine del manicomio di S. Eframo" di Cecilia Rosapepe. Non si tratta di un'opera autobiografica scritta da un paziente, ma l'abbiamo inserita lo stesso per la sua 'curiosità' e rarità (non è presente nel catalogo unico SBN!). La sua particolarità consiste nel fatto che l'autrice è la moglie dell'allora direttore di quel manicomio napoletano e la sua testimonianza è alquanto eloquente della problematicità con cui l'istituzione manicomiale investiva non solo le vite dei pazienti. Ne riportiamo, tanto per avere un'idea,  l'incipit:<< Quella notte non dormii. L'indomani avrei lasciato casa mia e sarei andata al manicomio. Sì in manicomio,  non perché pazza ma perché mio marito andava a dirigerlo. Una ridda di sentimenti si affollavano in me, una infinità di pensieri si rincorrevano, tanta malinconia mi avvinceva>>. Sì, perché a quei tempi il direttore viveva nel manicomio e vi si poteva trasferire anche con l'intera sua famiglia. Una domanda sorge spontanea: che anche questo internamento di familiari non costituisse un  crimine di pace??!!

ELENCO DELLE OPERE RINTRACCIATE NEL CATALOGO UNICO SBN (e non solo).

 

 

1) Petiziol Adolfo e Fenoglio Carlo (a cura di), "I quaderni di Tea", Roma, Astrolabio, 1974.

 

2)  Matassa Angela (a cura di), "E i pazzi siete voi! Lettere dal manicomio", Napoli, Editnews, 1988.

 

3) Morandini Giuliana (a cura di), "E allora mi hanno rinchiusa: testimonianze dal manicomio femminile", Milano, Bompiani, 1977.

 

4) Tomasich Antonio, "I mangiatori di pane: il diario di A. Tomasich nel manicomio di Trieste", a cura di Diana De Rosa, Tivoli, Sensibili alle foglie, 1998.

 

5) Morselli Enrico (a cura di), "Un genio da manicomio. Autobiografia d'un alienato pubblicata ed annotata dal dottor Enrico Morselli", Sanseverino Marche, Corradetti, 1877.

 

6) Conti Adalgisa, "Manicomio 1914. Gentilissimo Sig. Dottore questa è la mia vita", a cura di Luciano della Mea, Milano, Mazzotta, 1978 (riedita da Jaca Books nel 2000).

 

7) Del Giudice Giovanna (a cura di), "Il manoscritto di Augusta", Roma, Sensibili alle foglie, 1996.

 

8) Lizza Irene, "Invito al manicomio", prefazione di Bruno Cassinelli, Roma, Macchia, 1952.

 

9) Marescalchi Amilcare, "Cinque anni in manicomio. Ricordi autobiografici", Roma, La navicella, 1955.

 

10) Marsigli Maria Luisa, "La marchesa e i demoni. Diario da un manicomio", Prefazione di Franco Basaglia, Collana "Franchi narratori", Feltrinelli, 1973.

 

11) Rosapepe Cecilia, "Il glicine del manicomio di S. Eframo", Napoli, Intercontinentalia, 1970 (assente nel catalogo SBN)

 

...INVECE DI AUTOBIOGRAFIE DI PAZIENTI MANICOMIALI IN LINGUA INGLESE CE N'E' AD LIBITUM!

(in realtà la lista che segue comprende scritti autobiografici di pazienti che non necessariamente hanno avuto a che fare col manicomio nella loro vita).

(Fonte: "Bibliography of First-Person Narratives of Madness"  
            http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/misc/profile/names/pdf/Hornstein_Bibliography.pdf).
           


      
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Websites 
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 Hearing Voices Network: http://www.hearing-voices.org.uk/
M-Power: http://www.m-power.org/
Mad Nation: http://www.madnation.cc/ 
Mad Pride: http://www.ctono.freeserve.co.uk/
Mental Health Media: http://www.mhmedia.com/ 
Mind Freedom: http://www.mindfreedom.org/ 
National Empowerment Center: http://www.powerzu.org/
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