Closing opg: Socially dangerous mentally ill offenders' diagnostic tools. From forensic-psychiatric evaluation to the treatment | [Il malato di mente autore di reato socialmente pericoloso dopo la chiusura degli opg: Gli strumenti diagnostici dalla valutazione psichiatrico-forense alle pratiche trattamentali]

In Italy the treatment of socially dangerous mentally ill offenders, has been largely modified during the last years: a series of consecutive legislative and jurisprudential actions has radically modified the way of dealing with them. Actually therapeutic and riabilitative skills that are useful for this kind of patients have been sourced in the departmental organization of public psychiatric services. Those offenders have been this way considered as any other mentally ill person. According to us there still remain differences between the main aim of the treatments, its modalities, the specific skills required to the staff involved. It would be also useful to distinguish those two kinds of patients. The public psychiatric assistance requires specific diagnostic tools also because in many cases it is expectable that the mentally ill offender would have wrong behaviors again. The main aim of the author will be discussing the problem of which diagnostic tool to use during the passage from the evaluation moment to the treatment one. This passage hasn’t been considered by the exsisting laws since as it happened for the operativity of the public psychiatric services. Meanwhile the author would like to give readers some starting points in order to reflect on some concrete projects that can be adopted in future times.