Author Question: To Samuel Woodward, superintendent of Worcester Lunatic Hospital in the 1800s, heavy drinking, ... (Read 24 times)

acc299 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

To Samuel Woodward, superintendent of Worcester Lunatic Hospital in the 1800s, heavy drinking, masturbation, overwork, faulty education, and excessive ambitions were viewed as

a. common symptoms of mental disorders.
b. frequent causes of mental disorders.
c. problems resulting from overcrowding of mental hospitals.
d. irrelevant to an understanding of mental disorders.

Question 2

The large patient populations placed in mental hospitals in the 1800s are important in the history of abnormal psychology because they

a. provided physicians with an opportunity to observe and treat various types of psychopathology.
b. created growing awareness of the need for psychological rather than medical interventions.
c. gave public officials a new way to deal with dangerous criminals.
d. led to a steady reduction in the number of people with mental illness.