Philippe Pinel
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French psychiatrist
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Philippe Pinel's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Why Is Philippe Pinel Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Philippe Pinel 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".
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