 The first substantial report by Franco Basaglia was titled "The destruction of the Mental Hospital as a place of institutionalisation" and presented by him on the First International Congress of Social Psychiatry held in London in 1964.In this report Basaglia stated that "the psychiatrist of today seems to have discovered, suddenly, that the first step towards the cure of the patient is his return to liberty of which, until now, the psychiatrist himself had deprived him" and that "it is true that the discovery of liberty is the most obvious that Psychiatry could reach.