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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 ]
His father, Antoine Louis Blanche (1753-1816), was a chief surgeon of the military hospitals of Rouen.After finishing a doctorate of medical studies in 1819 at the Paris School of Medicine, he devoted his life to the study of mental health.
Nevertheless, one author referred to the concept of psychopathy in 1987 as an "infinitely elastic, catch-all category". [55] In 1988, psychologist Blackburn wrote in the British Journal of Psychiatry that as commonly used in psychiatry it is little more than a moral judgment masquerading as a clinical diagnosis, and should be scrapped. [56]
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.
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 ...
He came to Paris in 1799 where he worked at the Salpêtrière Hospital and became a favorite student of Philippe Pinel. To enable Esquirol to take up the intensive study of insanity in an appropriate setting, Pinel reportedly put up the security for the house and garden on Rue de Buffon where Esquirol established a maison de santé or private ...