The Trieste Model - MHSJ Network

​MHSJ is organising a delegation of service users and workers involved in Trieste’s Mental Health ecology to visit London in June 2025.

Since a large social movement in Italy led to the formal closure of asylums in 1978, there has, in Trieste, been an ongoing experimentation in democratic forms of mental health care rooted in an ecology of open-door mental health centres, social cooperatives, social housing, ‘micro-areas’ and creative/artistic practices. The Trieste delegation will be coming to engage in a dialogue with anyone interested in learning more and sharing experiences of the system here.

​This will be a forum to learn and exchange ideas open to service users, survivors, those who have been unable to access mental health services, professional or practitioners working in mental health, or those self-organising or supporting work in this area.

This event is supported by the CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership.