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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 .
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 ...
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.
The introduction of moral treatment was initiated independently by the French doctor Philippe Pinel and the English Quaker William Tuke. [21] In 1792, Pinel became the chief physician at the Bicêtre Hospital in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, near Paris. Before his arrival, inmates were chained in cramped cell-like rooms where there was poor ventilation ...
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 ...
Stairway to Light is a 1945 American short drama film directed by Sammy Lee.It was one of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series. Set in Paris during the French Revolution, it tells the story of Philippe Pinel and his efforts in pointing out that the mentally ill should not be treated as animals.
Marie Adelaide Pinel 1836-1902: Victor Charles Langevin: Gilbert Montel 1896-1915: Eliane Montel 1898–1993: Paul Langevin 1872–1946: Jeanne Desfosses 1874-1970: Julien Langevin: Victor Langevin 1871-1906: Anne-Marie Desbat 1941-2016: Paul-Gilbert Langevin 1933–1986: Jules Grandjouan 1875-1968: Iser Solomon 1880-1939: Alice Habib 1883-1943 ...
In 1867, the Place was renamed for the psychiatrist Philippe Pinel (1745 – 1826), "benefactor of strangers", because of its proximity to the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière where he worked. [1] [2] In 2012, the square was completely redeveloped by the Direction de la Voirie et des Déplacements de la Mairie de Paris, the City of Paris transport ...