Article ID: CBB875165117

A Renewed Interest in Violet Gibson’s Mental Health (2022)

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Pareti, Germana (Author)


Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Volume: 34
Issue: 3
Pages: 163-170


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 163-170
Language: English

This short communication highlights the recent historiographical interest in the shooting of the Duce Benito Mussolini in 1926, carried out by the Anglo-Irish woman Violet Gibson. A psychiatric report was compiled by two famous Italian phrenologists, Sante de Sanctis and Augusto Giannelli. The Court took their judgment into account, and the accused was declared incompetent. However, things would soon change with the introduction of the Rocco Code (1930), which was less open-minded in accepting the principles of positivistic psychological determinism.

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Authors & Contributors
Peloso, Paolo Francesco
Picozzi, Mario
Guelfi, Gian Paolo
Cegna, Annalisa
Dell'Osso, Liliana
Colucci, Mario
Concepts
Psychiatry
Mental health and illness
Medicine and law
Psychiatric hospitals
Mental disorders and diseases
Medicine and society
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
Italy
Pisa (Italy)
United States
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