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.

See also

• History of mental illness
• Mental health law

Mental institutions

• McLean Hospital, an institution in Belmont, Massachusetts; the world's largest private psychiatric research center in a hospital setting.
• Broadmoor Hospital, a hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire, UK; the most famous institution in the country of those responsible for the care of patients formerly referred to as the 'criminally insane.'
• The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, an institution in Baltimore, Maryland.
• Royal Earlswood Hospital, a former 'British Idiot and Imbecile' asylum in Redhill, Surrey.
• Institute of Mental Health, a Singaporean psychiatric hospital.