The Devil's Castle Quotes

“On December 11, 1794, a doctor named Philippe Pinel delivered one of the most consequential speeches in psychiatry, one that challenged his audience then and would challenge audiences now. He stood in front of a group of French leaders and declared madness curable. And called the mad not only human, but among the best people he'd ever known.”
― Susanne Paola Antonetta, The Devil's Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry's Troubled History Reverberates Today