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Professor Carlo Lorenzo Cazzullo, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Milan, died on 4 May 2010. He was 95 years old. He was the Father of Italian Psychiatry and the first Professor of Psychiatry in Italy, as distinct from Neurology. Before his appointment in 1959, there were no separate Chairs of Psychiatry in Italy, the only Professorships recognized in Italian Universities being Professorships of Nervous and Mental Diseases. Psychiatry was then only a complementary subject in the undergraduate medical curriculum.
After Professor Cazzullo's appointment, Psychiatry also became officially recognized as a separate medical speciality. It was later to become a core subject by law in 1976. The relevant legislation known as Legge no. 238 (28 April 1976) bears his name. Professor Cazzullo was responsible for turning psychiatry into a serious academic subject and also for the sweeping changes to the care of the mentally ill that were to follow.
The Istituto di Psichiatria, which he founded in Milan in the 1960s, was amongst the first in Italy to establish international links with major research