Author James Lomax is the Associate Chairman and Director of Educational Programs at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Texas. Lomax gives us the background of the late 1700s, when physician Philippe Pinel introduced his revolutionary concept of releasing restrained patients. He explains that before the 1700s, patients with mental health disorders were seen as possessed by a demon or worse. Richard Noll, PhD, a clinical psychologist and author who received his doctorate from the New School for Social Research, gives us more detail about the health care system during the time of Pinel, painting an image of cruel and inhuman treatment of patients. When Pinel took over a mental health hospital in France that was known to be the worst in the