Early treatment at the Public Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, involved the belief that: a. Patients needed to choose rationality over insanity and treatments were designed to intimidate patients into choosing correctly. b. Patients were demonically possessed and needed to be made uncomfortable to get the demons to leave. c. Patients were medically ill and needed physiological treatments. d. Patients were basically animals and were treated as such.
Answer: Option a. Patients needed to choose rationality over insanity and treatments were designed to intimidate patients into choosing correctly.
The early treatment at the Public Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia involved the belief that the mental patients should select sanity or rationality over insanity and therefore to justify that belief some rigorous forms of treatments which could coerce and constrain the patients were used. The initial treatments were harsh and aimed at subduing the patients.
Early treatment at the Public Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, involved the belief that: a. Patients needed...