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CCHR Encourages Italy to Complete Full Mental Health Reform After Court Ruling on Forced Treatment

CCHR Encourages Italy to Complete Full Mental Health Reform After Court Ruling on Forced Treatment

KINGNEWSWIRE/ Press release / ROME — In what has been widely reported as a landmark decision, Italy’s Constitutional Court struck down portions of the nation’s decades-old psychiatric treatment laws in May 2025, declaring unconstitutional Article 35 of Law 833/1978. The ruling affects procedures for Trattamento Sanitario Obbligatorio (TSO), the legal framework governing compulsory psychiatric hospitalization….

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