Philippe Pinel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Philippe Pinel

French psychiatrist

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1745

Place of Birth: Jonquières, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 25-Oct-1826

Profession: scientist, physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, zoologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Philippe Pinel (French: [pin?l]; 20 April 1745 – 25 October 1826) was a French physician who was instrumental in the development of a more humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients, referred to today as moral therapy.
He also made notable contributions to the classification of mental disorders and has been described by some as "the father of modern psychiatry".
An 1809 description of a case that Pinel recorded in the second edition of his textbook on insanity is regarded by some as the earliest evidence for the existence of the form of mental disorder later known as dementia praecox or schizophrenia, although Emil Kraepelin is generally accredited with its first conceptualisation.