Raffaele Barone 🇮🇹

  Sicily (Italy)

  raffaelebarone@virgilio.it

+39 3357380127

  personal LinkedIn profile

  raffaelebarone.com

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

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