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  • 31insanity — in·san·i·ty n 1: unsoundness of mind or lack of the ability to understand that prevents one from having the mental capacity required by law to enter into a particular relationship, status, or transaction or that releases one from criminal or… …

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  • 32Philippe Pinel — Infobox Scientist name = Philippe Pinel box width = image width =200px caption = Philippe Pinel birth date = April 20, 1745 birth place = Saint André, Tarn death date = October 25, 1826 death place = residence = citizenship = nationality =… …

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  • 33Pinel, Philippe — ▪ French physician born April 20, 1745, Saint André, Tarn, Fr. died Oct. 25, 1826, Paris  French physician who pioneered in the humane treatment of the mentally ill (mental hygiene).       Arriving in Paris (1778), he supported himself for a… …

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  • 34Alienist — The term alienist was heading for obsolescence until it was returned to a position of some prominence by the 1994 book The Alienist by the historian/novelist Caleb Carr. The story of The Alienist starts In New York City in March 1896 when… …

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  • 35Melancholia —    As a term used in medicine since the ancient Greeks, melancholia had two core elements of meaning, neither specifically referring to sad forms of depression: (1) All mental affections in which mood, drive, and intellectual function were… …

    Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

  • 36derangement — n. 1. Disorder, confusion, disarrangement. 2. Disturbance, discomposure. 3. Insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, dehrium, mental aberration, mental alienation, alienation …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 37The Fall of the House of Usher — Infobox Book | name = The Fall of the House of Usher title orig = translator = image caption = 1894 illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. author = Edgar Allan Poe country = flagicon|USA United States language = English series = genre = Horror… …

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  • 38Hypnotism — • The nervous sleep, induced by artificial and external means, which has been made the subject of experiment and methodical study by men of science, physicians or physiologists Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Hypnotism     Hypn …

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  • 39Fikret Mualla Saygı — Fikret Muallâ Saygı (1903, Istanbul, Turkey July 20, 1967, Reillanne, France) is a 20th century avant garde painter of Turkish descent. His work reflects influences from Expressionism and Fauvism, with subject matter focusing on Paris street life …

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  • 40Jacques-Joseph Moreau — Dr. Jacques Joseph Moreau (1804 1884) was a French psychiatrist and member of the Club des Hashischins. Moreau was the first physician to do systematic work on drugs effects on the central nervous system, and to catalogue, analyze, and record his …

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