Pinel's revolutionary ideas and humane treatment methods ushered in a new era in psychiatry, forever changing how society views and treats those struggling with mental health issues.

Pinel unchains the women at Salpetriere. Source: After Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury, French (1797–1890) I once, all night, heard a newscaster’s voice speaking out of a radiator. My mother had ...

An Ontario coroner's inquest into the death of Ashley Smith is going to continue hearing from Renée Fugère, a psychiatrist from the Institut Philippe-Pinel in Montreal. Smith was an inmate at ...

The report, from a Swiss psychiatrist and ethics expert,concludesthe Philippe-Pinel Institutebroke basic ethical guidelines and treated the former patients inhumanely when they stayed at the ...

Dr. Renée Fugère, a forensic psychiatrist at the Institut Philippe-Pinel de Montréal, where Ashley Smith was admitted in April 2007, told the inquest that Pinel staff were informed about Smith ...

National Institute of Forensic Psychiatry Philippe-Pinel union members in Montreal have given their 88 per cent approval to the agreement in principle reached with their employer on the renewal of ...

Colonial psychiatry wasn’t merely a racist instrument of confinement. ... The story echoes that of Philippe Pinel breaking open the doors of the Bicêtre asylum in Paris during the Revolution and ...

Dr. France Proulx, a forensic psychiatrist at Montreal’s Philippe-Pinel Institute, says a verdict of not criminally responsible can be difficult for victims and their families to understand, but the ...

Key points. Philippe Pinel's moral treatment models a human-centered, not med-centered, psychiatry. The best impulses of humanity, Pinel tells us, can be inseparable from its madness.