The mental hospital became the common and preferred place of treatment for mental illness during the __________.

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The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the rise of the mental hospital as the common and preferred place of treatment for mental illness, replacing earlier methods such as asylums and home care. This was due in part to the emergence of new approaches to psychiatry and advances in medical technology, as well as changing societal attitudes towards mental illness.

The Mental Hospital Became the Common and Preferred Place of Treatment