What was the treatment of people with mental illnesses like before Pinel’s reforms? What changes did Pinel make, and what results did he see in his patients?
What will be an ideal response?
Before Pinel began reforming the treatment of people with mental illness, such
patients were chained, beaten, fed only enough to remain alive, subjected to
bloodletting, and put on public display for paying sight-seers. Pinel began by
unchaining a small number of patients, improved rations, stopped bloodletting, and
forbade all harsh treatment such as whirling an inmate in a chair. In addition, Pinel
was responsible for many innovations in the treatment of mental illness. He
segregated different types of patients, encouraged occupational therapy, favored
bathing and mild purgatives as physical treatments, and argued effectively against the
use of any form of punishment or exorcism. As a result of Pinel’s changes, the
number of inmate deaths decreased dramatically, and the number of inmates cured
and released increased greatly.
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