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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.
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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 ...
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 ...
The Kirkbride Plan was a system of mental asylum design advocated by American psychiatrist Thomas Story Kirkbride (1809–1883) in the mid-19th century. The asylums built in the Kirkbride design, often referred to as Kirkbride Buildings (or simply Kirkbrides ), were constructed during the mid-to-late-19th century in the United States.
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 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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