WorkPhilippe Pinel

Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale, ou la manie [A Treatise on Insanity]

Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale, ou la manie [A Treatise on Insanity] (Paris, 1801; English trans. by D.D. Davis, Sheffield, 1806) Inferred

Philippe Pinel (1745–1826) · Paris, 1801; English trans. by D.D. Davis, Sheffield, 1806

InferredFuller copies a narrative from 'In the Bicêtre at the time Pinel tried his famous experiment of unchaining the prisoners.' The account of the priest who believed he was Christ and was gradually restored by isolation (without chains) matches the case studies in Pinel's Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale (1801; English trans. as A Treatise on Insanity, Davis, 1806).

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Documented 1841

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Journal November 1841

p45–p47

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“In the Bicêtre at the time Pinel tried his famous experiment.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal November 1841." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086; Box 5.

Inferred Fuller copies a narrative from 'In the Bicêtre at the time Pinel tried his famous experiment of unchaining the prisoners.' The account of the priest who believed he was Christ and was gradually restored by isolation (without chains) matches the case studies in Pinel's Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale (1801; English trans. as A Treatise on Insanity, Davis, 1806).