Medico-Philosophical Treatise on Mental Alienation - Hardcover

Philippe Pinel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047099746X ISBN 13: 9780470997468

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Synopsis

Medico-Philosophical Treatise on Alienation. Second edition, entirely reworked and extensively expanded (1809). Pinel's "Treatise", first published in 1801 and followed by an extensively enlarged second edition in 1809, constitutes the first modern psychiatry textbook, and is widely recognised as a seminal work. The book not only offers an insight into Pinel's pioneering steps to establish mental treatment on a sound scientific basis, but also provides us with the first evidence based critique of the problems of polypharmacy in psychiatry. This translation will be of interest to medical historians and psychiatrists, as well as to psychologists, general physicians, and social scientists. The book will appeal to anyone with an interest in mental health issues and the origins of evidence-based medicine, particularly now that Pinel's argument in favour of humane hospital care of the mentally ill, first advocated two hundred years ago, is coming back into favour.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 047099746X
• ISBN 13: 9780470997468
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320