Jean Colombier And François Doublet: The Birth Of Psychiatry [jean Colombier E François Doublet: O Nascimento Da Psiquiatria]

Jean Colombier and François Doublet were the authors of Instructions on How to Control the Insane and Work toward their Cure in Asylums to Which They Are Sent. This book was the first document of a reformist character about the situation of mental patients, and indicated criteria that 19th-century psychiatry should follow. Even though it was in print for only a short time, it became a highly respected work, as its contents were subsequently assimilated by the Committee on Begging at the First Constitutional Assembly, convened to write the Brazilian Constitution. © 2009 Associação Universitária de Pesquisa em Psicopatologia Fundamental.15110811