title: [You said Pinel?].
abstract: Pinel's action had to be "disabused". Pinel remains nevertheless a "mythical" figure of French Psychiatry even if he has not "removed the chains from the insanes", neither actually founded a "Subject in madness" nor, more simply, it's Moral Treatment. A Medical Practitioner and a neo-stoïcian Philosopher more than an Ideologist, when he stated a principle of curability and reversibility of mental alienation and classified it's clinical order of accessibility, his "founding gesture" was systematically associating those principles with the restoration of a status of Subject of Rights to those who lost their Reason.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chazaud
mesh_terms: D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Vous avez dit Pinel?