In the United States, an early treatment involved the belief that ________

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Early treatments in the United States often involved the belief that patients needed to choose rationality over insanity, and treatments were designed to intimidate patients into choosing correctly. This reflects a period in mental health treatment where moral treatment and the idea of mental illness as a matter of willpower or moral failing were prevalent.

In the United States, an Early Treatment Involved the Belief