Psychiatric hospital
A psychiatric hospital (also called a mental hospital, mental ward, asylum, and occasionally insane asylum , funny farm) is a hospital specialising in the treatment of persons with mental illness. Psychiatric wards differ only in that they are a unit of a larger hospital.
External links
- BBC News report on British mental hospitals
- Lawrence Stevens' views (from an antipsychiatry viewpoint)
- Information about Pennhurst School for those somewhat harshly known as 'Mentally Retarded' located in Spring City, PA
~ Table of Content ~
| ► | Introduction |
| ► | Types of psychiatric hospitals |
| ► | Anti-psychiatry objections to mental hospitals |
| ► | History of psychiatric hospitals |
| ► | Mental hospitals in the media |
| ► | See also |
| ► | External links |
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