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PINEL, Philippe (1745-1826). Trait medico-philosopique sur l'alination mentale, ou la manie. Paris: Richard, Caille et Ravier, an IX [1801].
8o (213 x 135mm). Half-title, printed folding table, two engraved plates (small wormtrack to extreme gutter margins of first half of book, dampstains to plates. Original dark purple paper wrappers, UNCUT, printed paper spine label (label possibly re-attached, small tears to hinges); modern cloth clamshell box.
FIRST EDITION of a landmark work on the treatment of the insane and mentally ill. In 1793 Pinel, newly appointed physician at the Bictre 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 fisrt attempt at individual psychotherapy. His treatment was marked by gentleness, understanding and goodwill" (DSB). En franais dans le texte 203; Garrison-Morton 4922; Grolier Medicine 54 (this copy exhibited); Heirs of Hippocrates 1070; Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 602-610; Waller 7456; Wellcome IV, p. 388; Norman 1701.
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FIRST EDITION of a landmark work on the treatment of the insane and mentally ill. In 1793 Pinel, newly appointed physician at the Bictre 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 fisrt attempt at individual psychotherapy. His treatment was marked by gentleness, understanding and goodwill" (DSB). En franais dans le texte 203; Garrison-Morton 4922; Grolier Medicine 54 (this copy exhibited); Heirs of Hippocrates 1070; Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 602-610; Waller 7456; Wellcome IV, p. 388; Norman 1701.