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...ever carry?but then again, if you can afford the $45,000 asking price for a Krug champagne trunk, chances are you'll also have legions of staff to lug it around for you. Created by the 160-year-old champagne house in collaboration with bespoke luxury-luggage makers Pinel & Pinel, the limited-edition calfskin trunks (only 30 have been produced) are each the fruit of 700 hours labor and can be customized with a buyer's name or logo. Champagne flutes, an ice bucket, cashmere throws and an array of other little knickknacks without which no gathering is complete...
...John Kennedy signed the Community Mental Health Centers Act. Almost two centuries before, Philippe Pinel had struck the chains from the inmates of the Salpêtrière asylum in Paris; Kennedy unlocked the doors. What had until then been therapy--getting people out of the hospital and back to their community--became policy. Twenty years ago, almost half a million patients were in state mental hospitals. Three-quarters are now gone...
...with modern psychiatric thinking, it proved as disturbing to many psychiatrists as to lawyers. Baltimore's famed Forensic Psychiatrist Manfred S. Guttmacher last week offered an explanation. The rule's broad implications, he said, presage a socio-psychiatric revolution as sweeping as that of 1792. when Philippe Pinel struck the chains from the mentally ill in Paris asylums. Many of his colleagues. Dr. Guttmacher intimated, fear a change because of their own deficiencies...
Victims of mental illness have had many champions since 1795, when Philippe Pinel boldly bucked the revolutionary city government of Paris and began to treat inmates of the Salpétriére as human beings rather than criminals or animals. But the bedlams of the 1800s gave way only to the unspeakable "back wards" of the 1900s, where men, women and children languished in filth and darkness. Now, many states in the U.S. are striving to live down that shame. As late as 1948, Indiana ranked 40th among the states, judged by the crude yardstick, of the amount...
Confinement in Cells. But the hospital was born with a split personality, and much of its effort has been devoted to the care of "lunaticks." As early as 1789 (before the Englishman Tuke and the Frenchman Pinel began the reform of bedlams), Dr. Benjamin Rush complained that his treatments of the mentally ill were "rendered abortive by the cells of the hospital . . . Few patients have ever been confined in these cells who have not been affected by a cold . . . Several have died of consumption." He recommended "more wholesome apartments," and they were soon provided...
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