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PINEL, Philippe (1745-1826). Traité medico-philosophique sur l'aléination mentale, ou la manie. Paris: Richard, Caille et Ravier, an IX [1801].
8o (203 x 119 mm). Half-title, printed folding table, two engraved plates (light browning and staining). Contemporary sprinkled calf (spine ends worn).
FIRST EDITION of a landmark work on the treatment of the insane and mentally ill. In 1793 Pinel, newly appointed physician at the Bicetre Hospital, ordered the chains and shackles removed from 49 patients (an event commemmorated at the time in paintings and popular prints) in order to try his new, more humane methods of treatment. "Pinel's psychiatric work effectively transformed the prison for the insane into a hospital. He did not merely initiate better treatment...but rather concerned himself with establishing psychiatry as a discrete branch of medicine." In addition, "Pinel's psychiatric therapeutics, his 'traitement moral,' represented the first attempt at individual psychotherapy. His treatment was marked by gentleness, understanding and goodwill" (DSB). En francais dans le texte 203; Garrison-Morton 4922; Grolier Medicine 54; Heirs of Hippocrates 1070; Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 602-610; Norman 1701; Waller 7456; Wellcome IV, p. 388.
8o (203 x 119 mm). Half-title, printed folding table, two engraved plates (light browning and staining). Contemporary sprinkled calf (spine ends worn).
FIRST EDITION of a landmark work on the treatment of the insane and mentally ill. In 1793 Pinel, newly appointed physician at the Bicetre Hospital, ordered the chains and shackles removed from 49 patients (an event commemmorated at the time in paintings and popular prints) in order to try his new, more humane methods of treatment. "Pinel's psychiatric work effectively transformed the prison for the insane into a hospital. He did not merely initiate better treatment...but rather concerned himself with establishing psychiatry as a discrete branch of medicine." In addition, "Pinel's psychiatric therapeutics, his 'traitement moral,' represented the first attempt at individual psychotherapy. His treatment was marked by gentleness, understanding and goodwill" (DSB). En francais dans le texte 203; Garrison-Morton 4922; Grolier Medicine 54; Heirs of Hippocrates 1070; Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 602-610; Norman 1701; Waller 7456; Wellcome IV, p. 388.