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Its most notorious guest was the Marquis de Sade. [3] [4] In 1781 the prison was referred to as “much more terrible than the Bastille”. [5] The Bicêtre is most famous as the Asylum de Bicêtre where Superintendent Philippe Pinel is credited as being the first to introduce humane methods into the treatment of the mentally ill, in 1793 ...
Philippe Pinel (French:; 20 April 1745 – 25 October 1826) was a French physician, precursor of psychiatry and incidentally a zoologist. He was instrumental in the development of a more humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients , referred to today as moral therapy .
The iconic image of Pinel as the liberator of the insane was created in 1876 by Tony Robert-Fleury and Pinel's sculptural monument stands before the main entrance in Place Marie-Curie, Boulevard de L'Hôpital. Pinel was the chief physician of the Salpêtrière by 1794, in charge of a 200-bed infirmary [4] which housed a tiny proportion of the ...
The Hôtel de Chabanais. The Pension Belhomme was a prison and private clinic during the French Revolution in the Rue de Charonne (11e arrondissement, Paris). Around 1765, the joiner Jacques Belhomme took on the construction of a building for the son of a neighbour, an aristocrat who had been mad since birth. Seeing that running an asylum was ...
Institut Philippe-Pinel de Montréal; J. ... Pied-du-Courant Prison; R. Regional Reception Centre This page was last edited on 25 December 2023, at 19:38 ...
Defunct prisons in Paris (1 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Prisons in Paris" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
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