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Science and Morals in the Affective Psychopathology of Philippe Pinel (2010)

Charland, Louis C. (Author)

History of Psychiatry
Volume: 21
Pages: 38--53
Publication date: 2010
Language: English

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Clinical psychology Psychopathology Psychiatry Ethics 18th century Pinel, Philippe

Building on what he believed was a new `medico-philosophical' method, Philippe Pinel made a bold theoretical attempt to find a place for the passions and other affective posits in psychopathology. However, his courageous attempt to steer affectivity onto the high seas of medical science ran aground on two great reefs that still threaten the scientific status of affectivity today. Epistemologically, there is the elusive nature of the signs and symptoms of affectivity. Ethically, there is the stubborn manner in which fact and value are intermingled in affectivity. Both obstacles posed insuperable difficulties for Pinel, who never really managed to extricate his affective psychopathology from the confines of the Lockean intellectual paradigm.

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