Bene comune e salute mentale di comunità: il contributo dell’educazione

The history of care of people with mental distress reveals that those people has been regularly excluded from the right of living a “good life” and so from the possibility to share the common good. Which is the “good” that a community deserves, when tak- ing care for people with mental illness, not only guaranteeing their rights, but also supporting them? The paper will offer a reflection about those questions, con- sidering the educational work as a strategy to promote communi- ty mental health