The "Medico-Pedagogical Institutes" and the failure of the collaboration between psychiatry and pedagogy (1889–1978).
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, a number of Italian psychiatrists were convinced that medicine and education should work together to treat children with mental disabilities, then commonly defined as "feeble-minded". To this end they promoted the establishment of "Medico-Pedagogic...
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