Which of the Following Is NOT One of the Reasons

question 42

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons psychiatrists embraced the use of drugs to treat mental illness?

• A) They allowed psychiatry to engage in research on mental illness.
• B) They were an extremely promising form of treatment.
• C) They were a form of therapeutic service only psychiatry could provide.
• D) They promised scientific respectability that had been lacking in the previously dominant psychoanalytic approach.

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