Since the Middle Ages, the insane had been seen as degenerate, demonic, bestial, and alien. Pinel and Pussin changed that, becoming known as the fathers of modern psychiatry. They thought of the insane simply as people suffering from mental and emotional distress: People with mental illnesses were ordinary human beings.
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Since the Middle Ages, the insane had been seen as degenerate, demonic, bestial, and alien. Pinel and Pussin changed that, becoming known as the fathers of modern psychiatry. They thought of the insane simply as people suffering from mental and emotional distress: People with mental illnesses were ordinary human beings.