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PINEL, PHILLIPE. 1745-1826. Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale, ou la manie. Paris: Richard, Caille & Ranvier, An IX [1801].
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PINEL, PHILLIPE. 1745-1826.
Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale, ou la manie. Paris: Richard, Caille & Ranvier, An IX [1801].
8vo (201 x 135 mm). Half-title, folding table, 2 engraved plates. Contemporary pink paper wrappers, later marbled paper chemise and slipcase, page edges untrimmed. Wrappers sunned, wear and chipping to edges, light scattered foxing.
FIRST EDITION. Pinel was one of the first to treat the insane humanely, striking the chains from the lunatics at the Bicêtre Hospital and implementing his "traitement moral," a compassionate form of psychiatric therapy that identified insanity with illness rather than moral perversity or demonic possession. In this work, Pinel replaced the theorizing and speculative characteristic of earlier works on mental illness with his own practical observations of the Bicêtre's mental patients, whose behavior could now be observed undistorted by cruel treatment. Pinel founded the Salpetriere's famous school of psychiatry and trained a generation of psychiatrists, the most important of whom was Esquirol. Garrison-Morton 4922; Hunter & Macalpine pp 602-10; Norman 1701; Zilboorg pp 319-41.
8vo (201 x 135 mm). Half-title, folding table, 2 engraved plates. Contemporary pink paper wrappers, later marbled paper chemise and slipcase, page edges untrimmed. Wrappers sunned, wear and chipping to edges, light scattered foxing.
FIRST EDITION. Pinel was one of the first to treat the insane humanely, striking the chains from the lunatics at the Bicêtre Hospital and implementing his "traitement moral," a compassionate form of psychiatric therapy that identified insanity with illness rather than moral perversity or demonic possession. In this work, Pinel replaced the theorizing and speculative characteristic of earlier works on mental illness with his own practical observations of the Bicêtre's mental patients, whose behavior could now be observed undistorted by cruel treatment. Pinel founded the Salpetriere's famous school of psychiatry and trained a generation of psychiatrists, the most important of whom was Esquirol. Garrison-Morton 4922; Hunter & Macalpine pp 602-10; Norman 1701; Zilboorg pp 319-41.





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