Topic > Pinel's Influence on the Mentally Ill by Philippe Pinel

These people have had enough trouble surviving in the world, they don't need a doctor to abuse them physically or mentally. They need someone to be there for them and try to understand what they are going through and try to help them. Pinel was this person for many patients, creating a great change in the world of mental patients. A big concern for Pinel was that staff at mental institutions were not adequately trained. After all this progress he didn't want things to go back to the way they were before. So he had a group of mental illness specialists travel across Europe to spread knowledge of Pinel. He wanted everyone to know what he had discovered and why it was necessary to change the treatment of the mentally ill (Philippe Pinel,