When reviewing the evolution of mental health and illness care, which event is associated with mental disorders beginning to be viewed as illnesses requiring treatment?

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Mental disorders began to be viewed as illnesses with the establishment of Pennsylvania Hospital, the first institution in the United States to receive those with mental disorders for treatment and cure. The Quaker establishment of asylums reflected the impetus toward moral treatment. Dorothea L. Dix advocated for the humane treatment of clients with mental illness with the creation of state hospitals. Freud believed that the primary causes of mental illnesses were psychological and a result of disturbed personality development and faulty parenting.

When Reviewing the Evolution of Mental Health and Illness Care