Tag Archives: Philipe Pinel

horror stories: cages of folles

It reads like something out of Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault. The traditional narrative history witnessed  the nineteenth century medical treatment of what was considered madness or insanity as a kind of  enlightened liberation of the mad from the … Continue reading

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ZONE OF THEIR OWN : HOBGOBLINS WITH SWORDS

“At the very beginning of the long dialogue between thinkers that makes up western political theory there is Plato’s Republic, and at the very beginning of the Republic there is this strange and interesting exchange. Socrates asks an old man, … Continue reading

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FROM THE CENTRE OF THEIR OWN CRYSTAL

The mad person as a symbol is a living, breathing reproach to the skeptical, scientific view of humanity and the universe which underlies everything that used to be known as Progress. The mad person as metaphor is also the one … Continue reading

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INFIDELS: MADNESS,MYTH & MISTAKEN IDENTITY

There is in the “mythology of madness” the oft repeated story of radical therapy effect by Phillipe Pinel when he released the madmen and madwomen from their chains in Bicetre and Salpetriere hospitals in Paris in 1794. Pinel’s freeing of … Continue reading

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