Abstract
We try to analyze the “mélancolie dévote”, studied by Philippe Pinel, between 1790 and 1816, a period of significant political, social and intellectual mutations. The medico-philosophical weft will be located precisely at the interface of the medical and the religious. Psychiatrisation of the religious experience who belongs to the great modern wave of medical appropriation of social phenomena, till then considered as extraneous to pathology. Trying to apply the “moral treatment” he was confronted to “aliénés”, who presented, following the political effects of the French Revolution and the “Terreur”, mystical exaltations, demonomania, prophetic delirium (M. de Gallardon). Amongst the problems brought about by the clinical entity and the alienist debate: The existence of medico-legal expertise and the various way of pathological interpretation of the extraordinary or mystical phenomenon.
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