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Philippe Pinel
French psychiatrist
Philippe Pinel | |
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Philippe Pinel, portrait by Anna Mérimée | |
| Born | (1745-04-20)20 April 1745 Jonquières, France |
| Died | 25 October 1826(1826-10-25) (aged 81) Paris, France |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychiatry |
Philippe Pinel (French:[pinɛl]; 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. He worked for the abolition of the shackling of mental patients by chains and, more generally, for the humanisation of their treatment.
He also made notable contributions to the classification of mental disorders and has been described by some as "the father of modern psychiatry".
After the French Revolution, Dr. Pinel changed the way we look at the mentally ill (or "aliénés", "alienated"