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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.
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 ...
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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 ...
Henry Landor (1815 – 6 January 1877) was the first medical superintendent of the Asylum For The Insane, London, Ontario, which was built to his specifications.He was one of those at the forefront in North America of the movement for moral treatment of mental patients.
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
Sunnyside Hospital (1863–1999) was the first mental asylum to be built in Christchurch, New Zealand.It was initially known as Sunnyside Lunatic Asylum, and its first patients were 17 people who had previously been kept in the Lyttelton gaol. [1]
In 1856 he was appointed director of the mental asylum at Saint-Yon in Rouen. Morel, influenced by various pre-Darwinian theories of evolution, particularly those that attributed a powerful role to acclimation , saw mental deficiency as the end stage of a process of mental deterioration.