Jean-Baptiste Pussin

Jean-Baptiste Pussin (Lons-The-Salt maker, 1746 - Paris, 1811)

Former tanner, it arrived sick at Bicêtre in 1771, where it was looked after, then cures, and started to work with the old people's home. Gradually, it was promoted supervising in the service of the agitated lunatics. In 1793, he worked as a supervisor of Pinel, which noticed that its way of proceeding with the lunatics was very effective: Pussin was very human with the patients, and when those were released their chains, those behaved well. When Pinel was transferred thereafter to Salpêtrière, he asked to the Minister of Interior Department that Pussin follows it, in order to be able to profit from the services of " intérieure" organizes; of this last, which was granted.

Pussin was a man of very strong breadth, endowed with a certain direction of the observation. With the authoritative character, supporting the orders of the administrative hierarchy badly, and imperturbably imposing to them his on those who depended on him, it encouraged the doctor Pinel to withdraw the chains with the mentally ills. The history will retain only the name of the doctor. Jean Baptiste Pussin is the spiritual father of the male nurse in psychiatry. He is the first supervisor to write observations on his patients. Estimating that they were more suited, it will choose the personnel among the cured patients and the convalescents. But the road will remain still long to humanize the psychiatric hospitals. The prefect Eugene Poubelle will inaugurate a commemorative plaque on a wall of the Bicètre hospital on August 3rd, 1787.

Jean-Baptiste Pussin is the name of the Training institute in Care Male nurses (IFSI) of the hospital psychiatric Esquirol with Saint-Maurice.

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Bibliography:

  • “In the night of Bicêtre” of Marie Didier

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