Why Were Most Mental Patients Released from Mental Hospitals in the 1950s?​

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Multiple Choice

Why were most mental patients released from mental hospitals in the 1950s?​

• A)Improved psychotherapy cured patients previously considered incurable.
• B)​Most patients recover better in a less restrictive environment.
• C)​Governments could no longer afford to pay for mental hospitals.
• D)​Governments needed the mental hospital buildings to use them as prisons.

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