# mentalhealth

Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) was a French Physician instrumental in the development of a humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients, referred to as Moral Therapy.

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2019-12-12

Mad Kate (1806/7) by Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) …the idea of madness has accumulated around it a mass of prejudices and fears which spring from a desire to keep the social fabric […] intact’. Mad Women in Romantic Writing (1987) by Philip W. Martin

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