Freeing the Insane.

• Autores: Elizabeth Fee, Theodore M. Brown
• Localización: American journal of public health, ISSN 0090-0036, Vol. 96, Nº. 10, 2006, págs. 1743-1743
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article looks at a contemporary photogravure of Tony Robert-Fleury's 1876 painting "Pinel Freeing the Insane." According to the article, the painting portrays several stock figures in the tradition of asylum art: a woman tearing at her clothing, a tense maniac, and a woman with a vacant stare chained to the wall. The painting reflects when Dr. Philippe Pinel unchained the female patients in 1800 at Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, France, which was part of a widespread asylum reform movement that began in the late 18th century. The article states that, lay asylum superintendents and early psychiatrists contributed to humanizing the treatment of the insane by making confinement less brutal and treatment more gentle and interactive. The article also discusses Fleury's moral therapy.