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Explanation:
Denied that deities/demons caused mental illness.
Viewed abnormal behavior and illness in general as having internal causes, and thus having biological natures or etiologies.
Has a key belief that if you took care of your body, your mind would also stay well (Hippocrates, 2010).
Treatment was to modify the environment (tranquil life, sobriety, exercise, and abstinence from excess).
Believed patients needed to choose health over mental illness.
Was the basis for the Hippocratic Oath
Physicians or healers will not deliberately harm an individual who seeks their help; they will treat anyone who comes seeking their aid; they will not give a deadly drug if the patient requests it; and they keep all information about doctor-patient professional relationships confidential (Hippocratic oath, 2010).
Such harms still later included:
Terrible conditions (patients shackled to walls or dark cells).
Treatment (electric shock, bleeding, spinning, restraints) used to intimidate patients into choosing health over illness.
google says: Dorothea Dix played an instrumental role in the founding or expansion of more than 30 hospitals for the treatment of the mentally ill. She was a leading figure in those national and international movements that challenged the idea that people with mental disturbances could not be cured or helped.
