Philippe Pinel

Multiple Choice

Philippe Pinel

A) believed that mental illness was due to possession by demons and exorcism was the only useful treatment.
B) believed that mental patients needed to choose rationality over insanity, so treatment was aimed at making their lives as patients uncomfortable.
C) believed that mental patients were ill and needed to be treated as such - with kindness and caring.
D) believed that mental illness was purely a physiological phenomena, and could only be treated by physical means such as bloodletting.