| Philipe Pinel's Quill Pen | |
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Origin |
Philippe Pinel |
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Type |
Quill |
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Effects |
Diagnoses and diminishes symptoms of mental disorders |
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Downsides |
Duplicates full force episodes upon others |
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Activation |
Medical / psychiatric meeting |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
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Section |
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Date of Collection |
May 26, 1935 |
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Origin[]
Philippe Pinel (20 April 1745 – 25 October 1826) was a French physician, precursor of psychiatry and incidentally a zoologist. He was instrumental in the development of a more humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients, referred to today as moral therapy. He worked for the abolition of the shackling of mental patients by chains and, more generally, for the humanization of their treatment. He also made notable contributions to the classification of mental disorders and has been described by some as "the father of modern psychiatry".
After the French Revolution, Dr. Pinel changed the way we look at the mentally ill (or "aliénés", "alienated" in English) by claiming that they can be understood and cured. An 1809 description of a case that Pinel recorded in the second edition of his textbook on insanity is regarded by some as the earliest evidence for the existence of the form of mental disorder later known as dementia praecox or schizophrenia, although Emil Kraepelin is generally accredited with its first conceptualization
Effects[]
Activates when engaged in a medical or psychological session, usually with another person to provide advice or treatment. For the patient, any quantifiable mental disorders they possess will be written out, along with the most common markers they’ve previously displayed. Those with formally unrecognized conditions will only have the symptoms listed.
The condition itself will be decreased in potency for several hours to days, for as long as the patient is actively aware of their indicators. It transfers the symptoms at their strongest and most detrimental to the practitioner, giving them a glimpse of the difficulty the other endures to promote sympathy.