- (C) One cause of the deinstitutionalization of many psychiatric patients in the mid-1900s was the
creation of new medications such as antipsychotic drugs. It was hoped that this movement would
save the government money and enable people suffering from mental illness to have more freedom.
Unfortunately, once released from the institutions, many people did not stay on their medication
regimes, and without adequate systems in place to follow up on these people, many became
homeless. Even though methods of psychotherapy may have improved, the former patients no
longer had access to it. The deinstitutionalization movement was not the result of a belief that we
had institutionalized healthy people.
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