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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 .
Philippe François Pinel (French pronunciation: [filip fʁɑ̃swa pinɛl]), known as Dumanoir (; 31 July 1806 – 16 November 1865), was a French playwright and librettist. Biography [ edit ]
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. [citation needed] The Bicêtre is referenced in the last chapter of Foucault's Madness and Civilisation titled "The Birth of the Asylum." In it ...
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.
Robert-Fleury painted Pinel a la Salpêtrière (1876), which depicts the famed Father of Modern Psychiatry among the inmates of the asylum. Philippe Pinel had been named chief doctor at the asylum in 1795, and had instituted more charitable and rational treatments.
Philippe Reines, a longtime aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is reprising his role as former President Trump while Vice President Harris prepares to spar with her Republican ...
Pussin and Pinel's approach was seen as remarkably successful and they later brought similar reforms to a mental hospital in Paris for female patients, La Salpetrière. Pinel's student and successor, Jean Esquirol (1772–1840), went on to help establish 10 new mental hospitals that operated on the same principles. There was an emphasis on the ...
Philippe Venet, a couturier who shared the refined taste and elegance of his longtime companion of Hubert de Givenchy, died Monday at the American Hospital in Paris at age 91. The cause of death ...