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A psychiatric hospital, also known as a mental health hospital, a behavioral health hospital, or an asylum is a specialized medical facility that focuses on the treatment of severe mental disorders. These institutions cater to patients with conditions such as schizophrenia , bipolar disorder , major depressive disorder , and eating disorders ...
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Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness by sociologist Andrew Scull is a critical history of two hundred years of treatment of mental disorders in the United States. From the "birth of the asylum" in the 1830s to the drug trials and genetic studies of the 2000s, Scull catalogues efforts by psychoanalysts ...
Church asylum or sanctuary, a right to be safe from arrest in the sanctuary of a church or temple; Lunatic asylum or mental asylum, a historical term for psychiatric hospital; Orphan asylum, orphanage; Right of asylum, refuge from persecution in another country
The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital . Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.
The Institute of Mental Health and Hospital Agra, previously known as Agra Lunatic Asylum was established in 1859, in British Raj by State government of Uttar Pradesh. [1] The Institute of Mental Health and Hospital spread over a campus of 172.8 acres in Agra in front of Bilochpura Railway Station near Sikendra. [ 2 ]
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The South Carolina Lunatic Asylum was authorized by state legislation in 1821, and was the second such state hospital (after Virginia's) to be authorized. Its original building, designed by Robert Mills and featuring the latest innovations in fire resistance and patient security, was built between 1822 and 1827.