The psychic treatment of nervous disorders: The psychoneuroses and their moral treatment.

1906 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Dubois
Keyword(s):  
Moral Treatment

Note Historique

1983 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 571-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Postel
Keyword(s):  
Private Practice ◽  
Mental Patients ◽  
Moral Treatment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Institutional Aspect ◽  
The Individual

Summary The purpose of this paper is to investigate Philippe Pinel's psychiatric experience, his practice in “la maison de santé Belhomme” and his first publications which were concerned with the treatment of mental patients and appeared in “La Gazette de Santé” which he edited between 1785 and 1789. During that time, the main preoccupation of the future head doctor of “La Salpétrière” had been to ensure the application and the development of moral treatment, in its practical modalities as well as its theoretic rationalization. Meanwhile, the institutional aspect of this therapy had the upper hand over the individual cure. This evolution brought Pinel and his successors to neglect the latter. In this connection we can regret that Philippe Pinel did not continue to have more private practice for this allowed him to follow first his experience and research (individual cure) in this field of rational psychotherapy, that of moral treatment.

On the Legal Doctrines of the Responsibility of the Insane and its Consequences

1864 ◽  
Vol 10 (51) ◽  
pp. 350-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Laycock
Keyword(s):  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
Moral Treatment ◽  
Medical Superintendent

I do not know that a more useful question can occupy this our last hour of meeting together than that of the legal responsibility of the insane, and how it affects us in our relations to our patients, more especially in regard to moral treatment. Our visits to Millholm have enabled us to judge of the value of that method, as carried out in the largest private asylum in Scotland. At the Crichton Institution, where we were so kindly entertained by Dr. Gilchrist and the directors, at our late visit, we witnessed its highest present development, and learn, moreover, of what it is further capable. Dr. Browne was the first to introduce the method into Scotland, when appointed to be the medical superintendent of the Crichton Institution, at a time when the lunatic was treated worse than a felon. With the sanction of the Board of Lunacy he most kindly consented to accompany us on our visit, and to give us a discourse on the moral treatment of the insane.

Interlude: Interview with Maud Casey

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Tougaw
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Moral Treatment ◽  
Mental Experience

In this interlude, Tougaw and Casey discuss her novel The Man Who Walked Away in the context of cultural and historical fluctuations in the diagnosis of mental experience as pathology. The conversation ranges through discussions of Ian Hacking’s book Mad Travellers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illness, nineteenth-century theories of “moral treatment,” Casey’s approach to historical fiction and narration, and contemporary debates about diagnosis and labeling of mental illness.

scholarly journals Moral Treatment: Philippe Pinel

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mrs. Sushma. C ◽  
Dr. Meghamala. S. Tavaragi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Social Stress ◽  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Demonic Possession ◽  
Moral Treatment ◽  
Modern Psychiatry ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time

Philippe Pinel a pioneer, a french psychiatrist, a physician, known as father of modern psychiatry, revolutions psychiatric care of patients with mental illness by introducing concept of moral treatment. Pinel rejected the then prevailing popular notion that mental illness was caused by demonic possession and stated that mental disorders could be caused by a variety of factors including psychological or social stress, congenital conditions, or physiological injury, psychological damage, or heredity. Philippe Pinel for the first time in history of psychiatric patients treated them humanly by unchaining patients known as madmen. This historic event was done for first time in Bicêtre Hospital in 1798 a Parisian insane asylum. In this article a brief history of life and work of pioneer Philippe Pinel is mentioned.

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