Table 1.

First Core Category “The culture of psychiatric care services” with relative descriptive quotations from participants.

(a) The culture of psychiatric care services	“In Thessaloniki there are 8 psychiatric units: 5 belonging to psychiatric hospitals, 3 are psychiatric units in general hospitals and 3 are in universities. Usually, involuntary patients will end up going to psychiatric hospitals, while voluntary patients will go to clinics” (Professor of Clinical Psychology Thessaloniki, GR).
	“In Chile we have a mixed form of care, there are still 4 psychiatric hospitals and some psychiatry wards in general hospitals. In the last year, a reform is accelerating the closure of the former asylums” (Psychiatrist, CL).
	“Data show that around 73% of people evaluated in emergency clinics come voluntarily. Among them, 67% are evaluated and only 29% hospitalized. Among the unvoluntary patients: around 88% are hospitalized while 9.5% are only evaluated. There is a big difference among clinics as some hospitals tend to hospitalize everyone” (Professor of Clinical Psychology Thessaloniki, GR).
	“Here in Friuli Venezia Giulia, the place where Basaglia operated, we have a community-based intervention model, so it is very difficult to carry out mandatory psychiatric treatment, there are home teams that go and reside at the psychiatric patient’s home until the urgency is over” (Psychiatrist, Friuli Venezia Giulia, IT).
	“In Rome there is a psychiatric model that over the years has developed and nourished itself from a system that was organized starting from the Basaglia reform that established a form of community assistance with mental discomfort. Furthermore, the presence of psychoanalysis within the working groups of professionals made us think that behind every involuntary hospitalization there is a family problem. For us, our users are not just hospitalized people. In our centers there are psychological bonds between family members, psychiatrists and hospitalized people, this allows us to treat family discomfort” (Psychiatrist, Rome, IT).