Exam 1: Abnormal Behavior

Who ordered the chains to be removed from inmates at a mental asylum and is considered a founder of the moral treatment movement?

List four major means used to judge abnormal behavior.Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each criterion.

Imagine that we travel back in time and meet two Americans.The first says, "I am sometimes called the father of U.S.psychiatry.I used bloodletting to treat my mental patients, but I insisted they be treated with respect." The second says, "Although I was only a schoolteacher, when I saw the deplorable conditions under which mental patients were living, I devoted my life to establishing suitable mental hospitals." The first person was ____; the second was ____.