Imagine That We Travel Back in Time and Meet Two

Multiple Choice

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 ____.

A) Benjamin Rush; Dorothea Dix
B) William Tuke; Clifford Beers
C) Clifford Beers; Dorothea Dix
D) Benjamin Rush; Friedrich Anton Mesmer