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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. Asylum architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Wyoming State Insane Asylum in Evanston, Wyoming. Asylum architecture in the United States, including the architecture of psychiatric hospitals, affected the changing methods of treating the mentally ill in the nineteenth century: the architecture was considered part of the cure. Doctors believed that ninety percent of insanity cases were ...

  4. Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum - Wikipedia

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    The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was a psychiatric hospital located in Weston, West Virginia and known by other names such as West Virginia Hospital for the Insane and Weston State Hospital. The asylum was open to patients from October 1864 until May 1994.

  5. Eastern State Hospital (Kentucky) - Wikipedia

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    Eastern Kentucky Asylum for the Insane (1894–1912) ... In 1970, Kentucky state mental institutions converted to the geographic unit system. In the past, hospital ...

  6. Asylum Isn't As Crazy as Trump Claims (opinion) - AOL

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    "An insane asylum is a mental institution on steroids." Trump's stream of consciousness also roped in Hannibal Lecter, the violent and institutionalized antagonist from The Silence of the Lambs ...

  7. Eloise (psychiatric hospital) - Wikipedia

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    In 1832 it was called the Wayne County Poorhouse; in 1872 it was the Wayne County Alms House; in 1886 it was referred to simply as the Wayne County House. In 1913 there were three divisions: The Eloise Hospital (Mental Hospital), the Eloise Infirmary (Poorhouse) and the Eloise Sanatorium (T.B. Hospital) which were collectively called Eloise.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Fact check: Trump made at least 20 false claims in his ... - AOL

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    Facts First: Trump did express uncertainty about the number, but his “like 60 million or something” claim is false. At the time he made this remark, public data on X showed that there were 1.1 ...