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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Pierre Rochette, a psychiatrist overseeing Turcotte’s rehabilitation at the Philippe Pinel Institute, told the panel he thinks Turcotte should be freed and continue treatment as an outpatient.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...