The rationale behind deinstitutionalization was __________.
A. the belief that physicians could better medicate and give physical treatment to patients in their own homes
B. the concern that the mentally ill were taking escapist refuge in mental hospitals and developing a permanent and chronic dependence on the psychiatric community
C. the belief that most mental patients were faking it and would cease to do so if they were not "rewarded" by being allowed to stay in a hospital
D. the concern that mental hospitals were such unpleasant places that, for mental patients, living on their own could only be better
Answer: B
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