The procedure of nominating Franco Basaglia's thought for inclusion in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity commences in Friuli Venezia Giulia. The process was launched at Gorizia City Hall and focuses on one of the most significant experiences in Friuli Venezia Giulia in terms of mental health rights, care, and service organization. Through Law 180, psychiatrists played an active and vital role in the closing of mental hospitals across Italy. Basaglia maintained that "Madness dwells within us and is as present as rationality. The difficulty is that society, in order to be considered civilized, should embrace both reason and craziness, but instead it entrusts a discipline, psychiatry, with the task of translating madness into illness and eliminating it". Prior to his appointment as director of the Gorizia mental hospital, the approaches to "treatment" for individuals who were marginalized by their mental illnesses were restricted to electroshock therapy, physical and pharmacological lobotomies, and a life of resignation and anonymity. Basaglia transformed the area of mental health in Italy by easing constraints, eliminating the most painful and humiliating "therapies", and implementing specific social integration programs. During the conference in Gorizia, the candidacy was framed as an opportunity to promote a vision that fundamentally altered our perception of mental health and, more broadly, the individual.