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Jan 21, 1924 Turin, Piedmont, Italy 100 years old
Italian psychiatrist and professor
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About Giorgio Coda
- Giorgio Giuseppe Antonio Maria Coda is an Italian psychiatrist and professor.
- He's been vicedirector of the mental hospital of Turin (Italian: Ospedale psichiatrico di Torino, in Collegno) and director of villa Azzurra (institute for children), in Grugliasco (Turin) After the trial, that lasted from 1970 to 1974, he was sentenced for mistreatment to five years in prison, to the payment of court costs and to the interdiction from the medical profession for five years.
- He's been nicknamed "the electrician" (Italian: l'elettricista) for his misuse of the electroshock therapy. The medical treatment consisted in the application of long-lasting electric current to the genitals and to the head.
- The treatment didn't make the patient lose consciousness and caused strong pain.
- According to Giorgio Coda, this treatment should have cured the patient.
- The treatment was called alternatively "electro-massage" (Italian: elettromassaggio) or electroshock depending on whether it was applied to the genitals or to the head.
- In some cases, the two terms have been used without distinction to denote the generic treatment.
- The treatment was practiced systematically without anesthesia and, sometimes, without cream and rubber protection device inside the mouth, blowing up the patient's teeth during the treatments.
- During the trial, Giorgio Coda admitted he had practiced about 5000 "electro-massages" in his career.The above treatment was also administered to alcoholics, drug addicts, homosexuals and masturbators, and it generated a so strong fear of the treatment, that most patients, at least temporarily, desisted from their acts and behaviors.
- The trial and the sentence, collected and analyzed in Alberto Papuzzi's book Portami su quello che canta have shown the coercive and punitive purpose of "electro-massages", which were not instruments of cure but atrocious instruments of torture and punishment, used on children too (in villa Azzurra). Some suspicious deaths during the treatments and some suicides occurred in the institutes gave rise to the suspicion that they may have been provoked (at least partly) by the fear of the suffering during the treatments.The case, at that time, has been interpreted politically by some journalists and part of the public opinion, according to the stereotypes of the so-called Years of Lead (1970s).
- According to this interpretation, the "bourgeois" doctor had tortured the weakest members of the "proletariat".
