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  2. Lunatic asylum - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Psychiatric hospital - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. South Carolina State Hospital - Wikipedia

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    In 1892, the hospital opened a nursing school (which closed in 1950), and in 1896 it changed its name to the South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane. Its campus at capacity in 1910 (and like many such facilities nationwide, underfunded, understaffed, and its patients not well cared-for), a second campus was opened for African-Americans ...

  5. Asylum architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first purpose-built asylum in the United Kingdom was Bethel Hospital, Bethel Street in Norwich, Norfolk, England. Founded and built by Mary Chapman (1647–1724), who was the wife of Reverend Samuel Chapman and built wholly at her own expense in 1713. The plan for the building was along an "H" block architectural design style. [9] [10]

  6. Richardson Olmsted Complex - Wikipedia

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    The first hospital to focus solely on mental health opened in 1773 in Williamsburg, Virginia and was known as the Eastern State Hospital. In the early parts of the 19th century, more mental hospitals were established across the United States including McLean Hospital in Boston, Friend’s Asylum in Philadelphia, and the Hartford Retreat for the ...

  7. List of psychiatric hospitals in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Ararat Asylum (Aradale Mental Hospital) Closed: 1865: 1993: 2000: Ararat: Collingwood Stockade (Carlton Lunatic Asylum) Demolished: 1866: 1872? Carlton North, Melbourne: Beechworth Asylum (Mayday Hills) Closed: 1867: 1995: 1200 [9] Beechworth: Kew Asylum (Willsmere Mental Hospital) Closed: 1871 [10] 1988: 884 (in 1903) [11] Kew, Melbourne ...

  8. Utica Psychiatric Center - Wikipedia

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    The hospital's first director, Amariah Brigham, thought that mental illness was the result of a bad environment, so the facility provided patients with spacious rooms, good nutrition, as well as physical exercise and mental stimulus. [10] He believed in "labor as the most essential of our curative means".

  9. Bloomingdale Insane Asylum - Wikipedia

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    The Bloomingdale Insane Asylum (1821–1889) was an American private hospital for the care of the mentally ill, founded by New York Hospital. It was located in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City , where Columbia University is now located.