Joseph Guislain (1797-1860) is a Ghent physician, professor and philanthropist whose name is associated with the scientifically grounded and humane treatment of the mentally ill in the nineteenth century. After years of study and social commitment he builds a madhouse composed to date in 1857. In the fields of asylum, just outside the nineteenth-century city, since 1986 housed the Museum dr. Guislain. The project Ghent Joseph Guislain (1797-1860). Under the spell of psychiatry will in collaboration with the Museum Dr. Guislain highlight the nineteenth-century world of mental illness through the eyes of Professor Guislain, according to a new permanent museum collection, a biographical publication, a traveling exhibition and a conference. The project commemorates that way Guislain professor, a scholar of international stature, and its impact on the city, society and the world of European psychiatry. These activities will form part of the extensive jubilee Ghent University 1817-2017