Question

Which psychiatrist was responsible for inspiring humane reform of mental asylums in france?

Answer 1

It was Franco Basaglia, an Italian psychiatrist who proposed the Basaglia Law 180 which contained directives for the dismantling of all mental asylums and led to the gradual replacement with a range of community-based services such as settings for acute in-patient care.

Answer 2

I think that Phillipe Pinel was responsible for inspiring humane reform of mental asylums in france.

Phillipe Pinel was a French physician considered a pioneer in the humane treatment of the mentally ill.

Besides, he contributed notably to the classification of mental disorders and has been considered by some as "the father of modern psychiatry".

In 1809, a description of a case that Pinel recorded in the second edition of his textbook on insanity is considered the earliest evidence for the existence of a mental disorder called dementia praecox or schizophrenia in the 20th century.