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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 ]
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.
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 ...
In 1801, French psychiatrist Philippe Pinel described without moral judgment patients who appeared mentally unimpaired but who nonetheless engaged in impulsive and self-defeating acts. He described this as insanity without confusion/delusion (manie sans délire), or rational insanity (la folie raisonnante), and his anecdotes generally described ...
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 ...
Pinel ordering the removal of chains from patients at the Paris Asylum for insane women. The introduction of moral treatment was initiated independently by the French doctor Philippe Pinel and the English Quaker William Tuke. [102] In 1792, Pinel became the chief physician at the Bicêtre Hospital. Patients were allowed to move freely about the ...
French physician Philippe Pinel was appointed to Bicêtre Hospital in south Paris, ordering chains removed from mental patients, and founding Moral Treatment. In 1809 he published the first description of dementia praecox (schizophrenia). 1796