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Mental Hygeine Movement

The principles of moral treatment were lost during the era of large asylums in the nineteenth century, but the consumer-driven US mental hygiene movement, which established institutional reforms, reintroduced the notion of therapeutic optimism and demonstrated the importance of collaborating “with leaders in education, law, religion and social work.”