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Medical Approaches in the Nineteenth Century
The
turn of
the 1800s saw a change
in the approach to the treatment of mentally ill patients. In this time
period,
the Moral
Treatment grew in popularity and this practice emphasized the
health
and well-being of the patients as being essential to rehabilitating
persons
with psychological disorders.
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This picture is of a nineteenth century hospital and was taken from http://www.fdu.edu/images/fmbuildings/