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__________________ The release of those confined to mental institutions for long periods of time into the community (the hope was that they would have) treatment, support, and rehabilitation, became a national movement. -ANSWER Deinstitutionalization In 1963 legislation believed the exact opposite of what Dorothea Dix believed during the previous century. That is, instead of viewing an institution as a peaceful asylum, institutionalization was viewed as contributing to the illness. If patie...