<P> There were some references to instances of helpful aspects or kindnesses despite the system . Participants were offered counselling to help them deal with their experiences, along with advice on their rights, including access to records and legal redress . </P> <P> In some countries where deinstitutionalisation has occurred, "re-institutionalisation", or relocation to different institutions, has begun, as evidenced by increases in the number of supported housing facilities, forensic psychiatric beds, and the growing prison population . </P> <P> Some developing European countries still rely on asylums . </P> <P> Italy was the first country to begin the deinstitutionalisation of mental health care and to develop a community - based psychiatric system . The Italian system served as a model of effective service and paved the way for deinstitutionalisation of mental patients . Since the late 1960s, the Italian physician Giorgio Antonucci questioned the basis itself of psychiatry; from 1973 to 1996 Antonucci worked on the dismantling of the psychiatric hospitals Osservanza and Luigi Lolli of Imola and the liberation--and restitution to life--of the people there secluded . In 1978, the Basaglia Law had started Italian psychiatric reform that resulted in the end of the Italian state mental hospital system in 1998 . </P>

The deinstitutionalization movement in the united states had led to all of the following except