Understanding The Pinel Bibliography: A Passion For Helping The Mentally Ill

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The Pinel Bibliography was a little hard to understand because of all the French words. I think that I still managed to understand what was going on. Pinel had come from a medical background having a barber surgeon as a father. I learned that barbers could perform surgeries when I took an esthetician class in
Michigan two years ago. Otherwise I think that would have confused me. Good thing more than a barber license is required nowadays to be a surgeon! I feel like Pinel had a passion for helping the mentally ill, and paving the way for how mental illness is treated today. To this day mental illness is misunderstood, and most people turn their cheek to someone that is mentally ill. I didn’t know that the mentally ill were considered demonic,

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