A psychiatric hospital (also called a mental hospital or asylum) is a A hospital today is an institution for professional health care provided by physicians and nurses. Contents // 1 Terminology 2 Types 3 History 4 Hospitals in the United States 5 See also 6 External links Terminology During the Middle Ages the hospital could serve other functions, such as almshouse for the... hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with Download high resolution version (500x637, 135 KB)Subject: Painting The Scream (1893) by Edvard Munch. Location: National Gallery, Oslo Source: [1] (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/munch/munch.scream.jpg) Notes: One of the several versions by Edvard Munch. Other versions: The Scream (1893), Munch Museum, Oslo... mental illness. Psychiatric wards differ only in that they are a unit of a larger hospital.

Psychiatric hospitals have a number of differences from other hospitals. First, they generally have elaborate procedures to prevent Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of intentionally ending ones own life. Attitudes vary on suicide from culture to culture. It is considered a sin in many religions, and a crime in some jurisdictions. On the other hand, some cultures have viewed it as... suicide by patients (for example, appliances with A mains cable (International English) or power cord (American English) is cable that connects an electrical appliance to an electrical power source. The term is generally used for cables connecting to a single-phase alternating current power source at mains voltage (100 to 240 volts, depending on the location). The... power cords are not allowed, and access to stairways and high, open windows is restricted). Second, they attempt to reduce the amount of sensory stimulation that the patients have. Contrary to popular belief, psychiatric hospitals are generally quiet, even boring places. Third, psychiatric hospitals often try to provide as normal an environment as possible. For example, unlike most other hospitals, many patients in psychiatric hospitals wear street clothes rather than examination patient garments.

Psychiatric hospitals in the past were often set up as separate institutions with funding and administrations separate from those of general health care. Since the development of effective therapies in the This article is in need of attention. Please see its listing on Pages needing attention and improve it (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1950s&action=edit) in any way you see fit. When the issues regarding this page have been resolved, remove this notice and... 1950s there has been an increasing move towards integration of psychiatric treatment within the general health sector. Psychiatric wards in general hospitals and various community based treatments are replacing the old asylums world wide.

If a patient had been admitted to the hospital on a voluntary basis, the patient is often allowed to check themselves out of the hospital Against Medical Advice, or AMA is a term used with a patient who checks themselves out of a hospital against the advice of their doctor. While it may not be medically wise for the person to leave early, in most cases the wishes of the patient are considered first. The... against medical advice. In most jurisdictions, to leave requires at least a day's notice. This is so in the event a doctor decides the patient would still present a danger to self or others that there is time to commence involuntary commitment procedures.

Since the Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Contents // 1 Events and trends 1.1 Technology 1.2 Science 1.3 War, peace and politics 1.4... 1960s, efforts have been made to improve mental health care. Nevertheless, many problems remain in those countries where free health care is not available or where funding is limited. This especially affects those with little money to pay for expensive facilities. Limited funding of hospitals can lead to a lack of adequate staff and resources which can lead to the use of restraints and medication for punishment rather than treatment. Procedural deficiencies such as a lack of documentation for involuntary treatment and other serious deficencies remain all too common in some countries.

Types of psychiatric hospitals

There are a number of different types of psychiatric hospitals or wards.

Crisis stabilization

One is the crisis stabilization unit, which is in effect an The emergency room is the American English term for a room, or group of rooms, within a hospital that is designed for the treatment of urgent and medical emergencies. Nomenclature In the United States an emergency room is often referred to by the acronym ER (there is also a popular... emergency room for mental disorders. Because Involuntary commitment is the practice of using legal means or forms as part of a mental health law to commit a person to a mental hospital, insane asylum or psychiatric ward without their informed consent, against their will or over their protests. Many but not all countries have mental health... involuntary commitment laws in many jurisdictions require a judge to issue a commitment order within a short time (often 72 hours) of the patient's entry to the unit and because moving a severely ill mental patient can be extremely dangerous, especially as the patient may try to harm himself/herself or others, many of these stabilization units have conference rooms which are used as courtrooms for emergency commitment procedures.

Open units

In some hospitals in the United States, there are often two distinct wards. The crisis stabilization ward is where all patients are initially placed. Usually, if the staff determines that the person is not a danger to self or others, the individual may be moved to an "open" unit. While the unit still may be locked, this type of unit is not as restrictive as the crisis stabilization unit. These open units try to make life as normal as possible for the patients. In these types of wards, a treatment team led by a doctor determines a plan of action for the patient. The staff watches the patient, and tries to help that patient to transition out of that particular ward into another environment as soon as possible. In most cases this can be back home to family, in others it is to a medium or long term care environment.

Medium-term

Another type of psychiatric hospital is used for medium term care lasting several weeks. Most drugs used for psychiatric purposes take several weeks to take effect and the main purpose of these hospitals is to watch over the patient while the drugs taken have their expected effect and the patient can be discharged.

Juvenile wards

Some psychiatric hospitals have a separate ward set aside for treating children that require hospitalization. These wards provide many of the services that those in the adult units receive, along with specialized educational services for children who may be absent from school due to the hospitalization. Note that adolescent psychiatric patients are often treated in the same ward as adults.

Geriatric wards

Hospitals may have a specialized ward set aside for geriatric patients. These type of wards specialize in treating the older patient, and the conditions that may affect the minds of these patients.

Hospitals for prisoners with mental illness

One other type of psychiatric hospital is designed for long-term care: a combination hospital and prison for the "criminally insane": typically, people with a Psychosis is a psychiatric classification for a mental state in which the perception of reality is distorted. Persons experiencing a psychotic episode may experience hallucinations (often auditory or visual hallucinations), hold paranoid or delusional beliefs, experience personality changes and exhibit disorganized thinking (see thought disorder). This is sometimes accompanied by... psychotic illness or Personality disorders form a class of mental disorders that are characterized by long-lasting rigid patterns of thought and behaviour. Because of the inflexibility and pervasiveness of these patterns, they can cause serious problems and impairment of functioning for the persons who are afflicted with these disorders Personality disorders are... personality disorder who have committed serious crimes. In the United States, these are generally operated by the state government and exist in a few centralized locations. In most cases, persons within these hospitals have been charged with serious crimes and have been found not guilty by reason of insanity. As a result, in addition to the precautions to prevent suicide there are also precautions against escape (such as are found in a A prison is a place in which people are confined and deprived of a range of liberties. Prisons conventionally are institutions authorised by governments and forming part of a countrys criminal justice system, or as facilities for holding prisoners of war. A prison system is the organizational arrangement of... prison). The treatment of persons within such institutions has been a subject of long-standing debate, because a patient will often spend more time in the hospital than they would have spent in jail. However, the severely mentally ill often get much worse in standard prisons, and are usually targets of an even greater than normal amount of abuse from the rest of the prison population. Also, it is felt that if a severe mental illness causes someone to commit a crime, locking them up without treating the illness is both a violation of their civil rights and serves simply to put them back on the street, where the same untreated illness will often drive them to commit another crime, beginning the cycle anew.

Half-way houses

One final type of mental institution which is not a hospital is a community-based half-way house which provides assisted living for mental patients for an extended period of time. These institutions are considered to be one of the most important parts of a mental health system by many Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that studies and treats mental and emotional disorders (see mental illness). The term alienist is an old term for a psychiatrist, and the term shrink (from head shrinker) is a (sometimes offensive) slang term for a psychotherapist. Note that psychiatry is practiced by psychiatrists... psychiatrists, although many localities fail to provide sufficient funding for them.

Used as a form of prison

See Psikhushka (психушка) is a colloquialism for psychiatric hospital in Russian language. It has been occasionally used in English language since the times when the dissident movement in the Soviet Union has become known in the West. In the Soviet Union, psychiatric hospitals were... Psikhushka

Anti-psychiatry objections to mental hospitals

Some observers, including Thomas Szasz, have objected to calling mental hospitals "hospitals" (see Beginning in the 1960s, a movement called anti-psychiatry claimed that psychiatric patients are not ill but are individuals that do not share the same consensus reality as most people in society. Adherents of this movement often refer to the myth of mental illness, after Dr. Thomas Szaszs controversial... anti-psychiatry). Lawrence Stevens has described mental hospitals as "jails."

In particular, anti-psychiatry activists have advocated for the abolition of long-term hospitals for the criminally insane, on the grounds that the insanity defense should not be permitted and those confined to such institutions should be incarcerated in a regular prison instead, others on the grounds that the inmates' confinement to these "hospitals" punishes them for crimes of which they have been judged In criminal law, an acquittal is the legal result of a verdict of not guilty, or some similar end of the proceeding that terminates it with prejudice without a verdict of guilty being entered against the accused. The opposite result is a conviction. In the common law tradition, an acquittal... not guilty, and others on various other grounds.

History of psychiatric hospitals

The history of psychiatric hospitals is linked heavily with social and scientific attitudes towards mental health, and the attitudes of those afflicted with mental illness, both of which have changed greatly over the past centuries.

Scene of Bethlem Hospital from Hogarth's A Rake's Progress.

As the number of people living in cities increased, there became an increasingly large population of urban mentally ill. Generally speaking, in rural areas the mentally ill had been able to rely on local charity and support, or managed to simply "blend in" with the rest of the population, however under the demands of larger cities they faced a higher degree of difficulty and had a much greater chance of causing disruption or simply being noticed. This led to the building of the early asylums which were little more than repositories for the mentally ill, removing them from mainstream society in the same manner as a jail would for criminals. Conditions were often extremely poor, and serious treatment was not yet an option. The first known psychiatric hospital, The Bethlem Royal Hospital, (which has been variously known as Bethlem Hospital, Bethlehem Hospital and Bedlam) is the worlds oldest madhouse or psychiatric hospital. It has been a part of London since 1247, first as a priory for the sisters and brethren of the order of the Star of... Bethlem Royal Hospital (Bedlam) was founded in For other uses, see London (disambiguation). London — containing the City of London — is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England and a major world city. With over seven million inhabitants (Londoners) in Greater London area, it is amongst the most densely populated areas in Western Europe... London in Years: 1244 1245 1246 - 1247 - 1248 1249 1250 Decades: 1210s 1220s 1230s - 1240s - 1250s 1260s 1270s Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century Events Shams ad-Din disappears resulting in Jalal Uddin Rumi writing 30,000 verses of poetry about his disappearance. Romford, London, England is chartered as a market... 1247 and by Years: 1400 1401 1402 - 1403 - 1404 1405 1406 Decades: 1370s 1380s 1390s - 1400s - 1410s 1420s 1430s Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century Events July 21 - Battle of Shrewsbury. King Henry IV of England defeats a rebel army led by Hotspur Percy, who is killed. Jan Hus begins preaching Wycliffite... 1403 had begun accepting " A lunatic (colloquially: loony) is a pejorative term for a person who is mentally ill, dangerous, foolish or unpredictable. The word gains its stem from the Latin luna for moon, which denotes the traditional link made in folklore between madness and the phases of the moon. This probably refers to... lunatics." It soon became (in)famous for its harsh treatment of the insane, and in the 18th century would allow visitors to pay a penny to observe their patients as a form of Freak Show is the second album from the members of the Australian grunge band, Silverchair. Produced/Recorded by Nick Launay, Mixed by Andy Wallace. Mastered by Bob Ludwig, Gateway Mastering. Released on CD, cassette, and 12 Vinyl (black & ltd ed yellow). Released on 3 Feb. 1997 Track listing Slave... freak show. In Years: 1697 1698 1699 - 1700 - 1701 1702 1703 Decades: 1670s 1680s 1690s - 1700s - 1710s 1720s 1730s Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1700 in literature 1700 in music 1700 in science List of state leaders in 1700 List of religious leaders in 1700 Events January 1 - Russia accepts Julian... 1700 it is recorded that the "lunatics" were called "patients" for the first time, and within twenty years separate wards for the "curable" and "incurable" patients had been established, representing the beginning of a clear shift in the attitude towards mental illness towards a disease of some form.

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While many of those in state hospitals were voluntarily admitted, many more were involuntarily committed by courts. For this reason, state hospital patients were usually from the lower class, as the mentally ill from families with money often had enough private care to avoid being labeled a public menace.

In the United States, state hospitals in some places began to overflow by the beginning of the 20th century. As state populations increased, so did the amount of the mentally ill, and so did the cost of housing them in centralized institutions. During wartime, state mental hospitals became even more overburdened, often serving as hospitals for returning servicemen as well as for their regular clientelle. The incentive to discharge patients was high, however there were still no adequate treatments or therapies for the mentally ill.

Female Department, Stockton State Hospital, Stockton, California. Stockton State Hospital was Californias first state psychiatric hospital, established in 1853. It was closed in 1996 and has since been converted into a campus for California State University, Stanislaus. Postcard from the 1910s, scanned by Fastfission. This image has been released...

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By the mid-1940s, treatment of the mentally ill became effective for the first time with the advent of Electroconvulsive therapy, also known as electroshock or ECT, is a controversial type of psychiatric shock therapy involving the induction of an artificial seizure in a patient by passing electricity through the brain. Researchers remain uncertain as to exactly how ECT affects improvements in mental state, though patients with a variety... electroshock (ECT) and The structure of insulin Red: carbon; green: oxygen; blue: nitrogen; pink: sulfur. The blue/purple ribbons denote the skeleton [-N-C-C-]n in the proteins amino acid sequence H-[-NH-CHR-CO-]n-OH where R is the part protruding from the skeleton in each amino acid. Insulin... insulin This article is about the medical term. For use of the term in economics see Shock therapy (economics). For the 1981 sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, see Shock Treatment. Shock therapy is the deliberate and controlled induction of some form of physiological shock in an individual for the... shock therapy, and the use of the Psychosurgery is the practice of performing surgery on the brain to treat or alleviate severe mental disease. Its implementation has been sporadic and faddish, and is now almost universally shunned as inappropriate. This term should not be confused with the fraudulent, sleight-of-hand practice of psychic surgery. There is... lobotomy technique. In modern times, insulin shock therapy and lobotomies are viewed as being almost as barbaric as the Bedlam "treatments," though in their own context they were seen as the first options which produced any noticeable effect on their patients. ECT is still used, but it is seen as a last resort for treatment of mood disorders, and is administered much more safely than in the past. The effect of a lobotomy on an overly excitable patient often allowed them to be discharged to their homes, which was seen by administrators (and often guardians) as a preferable solution than institutionalization. Lobotomies were performed in great numbers from the Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s Years: 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 Contents // 1 Events and trends 1.1 Technology 1.2 Science 1.3 War, peace and politics 1.4 Economics... 1930s to the This article is in need of attention. Please see its listing on Pages needing attention and improve it (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1950s&action=edit) in any way you see fit. When the issues regarding this page have been resolved, remove this notice and... 1950s. At the time, these new therapies became a horrific part of popular understanding of the mental hospital, helping their popularity very little, to say the least.

By the mid-1950s, the first psychiatric drugs became available for the treatment of mental illness, such as Chlorpromazine was the first antipsychotic drug, used during the 1950s and 1960s. Used as chlorpromazine hydrochloride and sold under the tradenames Largactil (the liquid cosh) and Thorazine, it has sedative, hypotensive and antiemetic properties as well as anticholinergic and antidopaminergic effects. Today, Chlorpromazine is considered a typical antipsychotic. It is... thorazine, which revolutionized psychiatric care and provided for the first time ways for many of the severely mentally ill to return to normal society. The newly discovered An antidepressant is a medication used primarily in the treatment of clinical depression. Modern antidepressants are not stimulants and are not generally addictive. Some examples of antidpressants on the market today are Prozac, Zoloft, Effexor, and Celexa. They also are not thought to produce tolerance, although sudden withdrawal may produce... antidepressants helped with most cases of It is common to feel sad, discouraged , or down once in a while, and anyone in this state might say they are suffering from depression. But for some people, this mood persists. For depression, or any other condition, to be termed clinical it must reach criteria which are generally accepted... depression and the introduction of muscle relaxants allowed ECT to be used in a modified form for the treatment of severe depression and a few other disorders. Psychosurgery is the practice of performing surgery on the brain to treat or alleviate severe mental disease. Its implementation has been sporadic and faddish, and is now almost universally shunned as inappropriate. This term should not be confused with the fraudulent, sleight-of-hand practice of psychic surgery. There is... Psychosurgery was refined and its use was narrowed to a very small number of people for specific indications. More effective treatments led to reductions in the number of patients in mental hospitals.

In the early 1960s USA, amid public images of mental hospitals as sites for horror movies, a deinstitutionalization movement caught hold in many states. California, for example, began to scale back its large mental health system in favor of community-based care, whereby smaller clinics would attempt to aid those suffering from early signs of mental illness before they got to the stage where they would be institutionalized in a mental hospital. At the time, mental hospitals were viewed as the least desirable solution to the problem of mental illness, both from a humane point of view and an economic one. The point of view continued to promulgate and went even further in the backlash against social welfare policies in the 1980s, which lead to massive deinstitutionalization and funding cuts. These changes lead to the closing of many mental hospitals and the further reliance on local community care.

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Mental hospitals in film and television

Mental hospitals are often depicted as frightening places in fiction, where treatments are forced upon inmates by uncaring staff, or inmates themselves are either violently deranged or sinister. Although there have been cases of abuse of patients in real life, and some conditions do occasionally result in violent behavior, this stereotype of mental hospitals is misleading.

Some recent depictions of mental hospitals in fiction include:

• Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. Fiction is the term used to describe works of the imagination. This is in contrast to non-fiction... Arkham Asylum in The animated Batman shoots his grappling gun from a rooftop in a scene from the episode, On Leather Wings. Batman: The Animated Series is an acclaimed animated television series adaptation of the comic book series featuring the DC Comics superhero, Batman. The original episodes, produced by Bruce Timm and Eric... Batman: The Animated Series - TV series
• Girl, Interrupted is an autobiographical book by Susanna Kaysen first published in 1994, that relates the authors experience of being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and admission to McLean Hospital. It was adapted into a 1999 movie that both starred and was produced by Winona Ryder. The movie, which... Girl, Interrupted - movie, based on a book written by a patient at McLean Hospital is a mental hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts noted in part for the large number of famous people who have been treated there, including mathematician John Nash, poets Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath and singer-songwriter James Taylor. An interesting book on the history of McLean is Alex Beam... McLean Hospital based on her experiences there
• Gothika Director Mathieu Kassovitz Producer  ? Writer Sebastian Gutierrez Starring Halle Berry Distributor unknown Released 2003 Runtime 98 min Language English Series: None Awards: None IMDb Page (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348836/) Gothika is a 2003 horror movie. It describes a story of female psychiatrist that wakes up... Gothika - movie in which a psychiatric doctor, played by Halle Berry on the poster of Introducing Dorothy Dandridge Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966) is an American actress. Berry was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She was named after Halles Department Store, a local landmark. Although she is generally considered African American, she is biracial, with a white... Halle Berry ends up institutionalised in the very hospital she used to work at.
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - movie
• Hunter Patch Adams (b. December 29, 1943 at Washington, District of Columbia) founded the Gesundheit Institute in 1971. His life was the template for the plot of the movie Patch Adams with Robin Williams as leading actor. Patch Adams graduated as a medical doctor in 1971, convinced of the powerful... Patch Adams - at the beginning of the film Hunter "Patch" Adams ( Robin Williams performing in Iraq. Robin McLaurin Williams (born July 21, 1952) is a multi-award-winning American actor and comedian who was born in Chicago, Illinois. He first achieved notice for his stand-up routines in San Francisco. His first major acting role was in the television series Mork... Robin Williams) checks himself into a mental hospital, and eventually leaves AMA after discovering what he needs isn't there.
• Session 9 - movie, a cleaning crew wins a bidding contract to clean up an abandoned large mental hospital within a week (originally meant for three weeks). One of the cleaners discovers and listens to old tapes of psychological therapy sessions from the 1970s, namely one involving a distraught woman with Contents // 1 Overview 2 Believers 3 Skeptics 4 Professionals who still find the DID diagnosis useful 5 Healthy multiplicity 6 Note on FMSF (False Memory Syndrome Foundation) 7 MPD/DID chronology 8 See also 9 References and external links 9.1 Recovered memories 9.2 Skeptical viewpoints 9.3 Professional... dissociative identity disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder). Undergoing a tight schedule and deadline, the main character is overwhelmed by stress and develops schizophrenia. The movie was shot in Danvers State Hospital.
• Sharon's Secret - movie
• In the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day Director James Cameron Producer James Cameron Writer James Cameron William Wisher Jr. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger Linda Hamilton Edward Furlong Robert Patrick Distributor TriStar Pictures Released 1991 Runtime 137 min Language English Series: The Terminator Terminator 2: Judgment Day Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Awards: 1992... Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Sarah Connor is locked away for her (apparently) delusory belief that the end of the world is about to be brought about by a killer artificial intelligence.
• In Hannibal Lecter trilogy Red Dragon (Manhunter) The Silence of the Lambs Hannibal Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins in the film version The Silence of the Lambs is a novel by Thomas Harris, his second to feature sociopath psychiatrist and cannibal Dr. Hannibal Lecter. In the novel and the film based... The Silence of the Lambs, Dr Dr. Hannibal The Cannibal Lecter is a fictional character appearing in four novels by author Thomas Harris and their film adaptations. He is arguably the most fearsome serial killer ever depicted. The novels in which the character of Lecter appears are Red Dragon (published in 1981, filmed in 1986 as... Hannibal Lecter is held at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
• In the movie Twelve Monkeys is a 1995 science fiction conspiracy theory movie directed by former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam and inspired by the short film La Jetée. It deals with problems of time and memory, and features performances by Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt. Spoiler warning: Plot or... Twelve Monkeys Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955 as Walter Bruce Willis) is an American actor. Born at a military base in Idar-Oberstein, Germany, he was raised in Penns Grove, New Jersey and moved to New York to become an actor. He first found fame with his starring role in the... Bruce Willis's character is, rather understandably, placed into a psychiatric hospital because of his claims that he is from the future. He meets the manic character played by Brad Pitt William Bradley Pitt, widely known as Brad Pitt (born December 18, 1963), is an American film actor. He was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri. In high school, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student government, and school musicals. He dropped out of the University... Brad Pitt within.
• Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed is a 2004 horror sequel written by Megan Martinl Cooney and was directed by Brett Sullivan. Plot Categories: Movie stubs | 2004 films | Horror films | Thriller films | Werewolves ... Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed - In this film, the female main character is placed in an institution.
• Contents // 1 Synopsis 2 Plot 3 Cast list 4 External links Synopsis The Princess and the Warrior (German title Der Krieger und die Kaiserin lit. The Warrior and the Empress) is a 2000 film written and directed by Tom Tykwer with Franka Potente, star of his previous movie Run Lola... The Princess and the Warrior The main character is a nurse at a psychiatric hospital.

See also

• The Royal Earlswood Hospital or The Royal Earlswood Asylum for Idiots in Redhill, Surrey was a psychiatric hospital. Around 1847 Ann Serena Plumbe took an interest in the plight of the mentally ill, or idiots as they were unflinchingly termed at the time, and began to discuss what could be... Royal Earlswood Hospital - a British asylum
• McLean Hospital is a mental hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts noted in part for the large number of famous people who have been treated there, including mathematician John Nash, poets Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath and singer-songwriter James Taylor. An interesting book on the history of McLean is Alex Beam... McLean Hospital - an institution in Belmont, Massachusetts; the largest private psychiatric research hospital in the world
• The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital - an institution in Baltimore, Maryland
• The Royal Earlswood Hospital or The Royal Earlswood Asylum for Idiots in Redhill, Surrey was a psychiatric hospital. Around 1847 Ann Serena Plumbe took an interest in the plight of the mentally ill, or idiots as they were unflinchingly termed at the time, and began to discuss what could be... Royal Earlswood Hospital - a British asylum
• Institute of Mental Health - a Singapore psychiatric hospital

• Throughout history, man has had to confront mental illness, and each society has developed its own solutions. By tracking these developments, a deeper understanding of human interaction and concepts of normalcy can be gathered. Contents // 1 Prehistoric times 2 Ancient Egypt 3 Monotheism and Mental Health 3.1 Ancient Judaism... History of mental illness
• Mental health law is that area of law that deals with mental conditions. This includes areas in both common law and statute law. Common law issues include such concepts as mens rea, insanity defences, sane and insane automatism amongst others. Statute law usually takes the form of a Mental health... Mental health law

External links

• BBC News report on British mental hospitals (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/823732.stm)
• Lawrence Stevens' views (from an antipsychiatry viewpoint) (http://www.antipsychiatry.org/due-proc.htm)
• Information about Pennhurst School for the Mentally Retarded located in Spring City, PA (http://www.elpeecho.com/pennhurst/pennhurst.htm)