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   Bull Hist Med. 2010 Fall;84(3):358-86. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2010.0023.   
   Stomach and psyche: eating, digestion, and mental illness in the medicine of   
   Philippe Pinel.   
   Williams EA1.   
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   Abstract   
      
   In premodern medicine eating and digestion were often linked to psychic   
   disturbance, yet modern "mental medicine" is generally thought to have   
   abandoned this ancient assumption. The work of Philippe Pinel, founder of   
   French psychiatry and advocate of the    
   "moral treatment," has been regarded as indicative of this process, but in   
   fact eating and digestion remained important to Pinel's understanding of the   
   néuroses, the variety of disease within which he classified both mild and   
   severe forms of mental    
   illness. Pinel's theoretical and clinical innovations in regard to maladies   
   that blended mental and gastric distress left an important legacy both to   
   asylum-based psychiatry and to medical generalists working in private settings   
   in the nineteenth century.   
    Today his work remains valuable for its insistence on the inextricability of   
   the "physical and the moral" in psycho-gastric illness.   
   PMID: 21037396 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2010.0023   
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   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21037396   
      
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