I think that Phillipe Pinel was responsible for inspiring humane reform of mental asylums in france.
Phillipe Pinel was a French physician considered a pioneer in the humane treatment of the mentally ill.
Besides, he contributed notably to the classification of mental disorders and has been considered by some as "the father of modern psychiatry".
In 1809, a description of a case that Pinel recorded in the second edition of his textbook on insanity is considered the earliest evidence for the existence of a mental disorder called dementia praecox or schizophrenia in the 20th century.
