Mental Patient is a photograph by Jean-loup Charmet/science Photo Library which was uploaded on September 16th, 2018.
Mental Patient
Mental patient. Historical artwork of a mentally ill woman. This is a detail from a 19th century painting by Robert Fleury depicting mental patients... more
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Mental Patient
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Jean-loup Charmet/science Photo Library
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Mental patient. Historical artwork of a mentally ill woman. This is a detail from a 19th century painting by Robert Fleury depicting mental patients being freed from their chains by the pioneering psychiatrist Philippe Pinel. Pinel advocated humane treatment of those with mental illnesses. For a detail of the same work showing Pinel, see H416/298. For an engraving based on the original, see N560/002.
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