The Public Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, was the first hospital in the United States devoted exclusively to the mentally ill, and held to a treatment philosophy that __________.

A. patients needed to choose rationality over insanity, with aggressive treatment techniques designed to intimidate patients
B. patients were demonically possessed and needed to be made uncomfortable in order to force the demons to leave
C. patients were medically ill and needed physiological treatments
D. patients were basically animals and should be treated as such

Answer: A

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