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5 unusual facts about psychiatric hospital


Behind Locked Doors

A private detective goes undercover in an asylum in search of a judge who is hiding out from the police.

Gesänge der Frühe

The set was composed just five months before Schumann's attempted suicide and confinement to a mental institution.

Jonathan Baldwin Turner

He became a strident opponent of corporations, and an advocate of the rights of the mentally ill, who suffered under terrible conditions in the asylums of the nineteenth-century.

Thief: Deadly Shadows

When he was a young child, he lived in the Shalebridge Cradle, an orphanage and insane asylum.

Warley, Essex

It is also home to a new development of houses situated on the former site of Warley Hospital (a mental hospital), called Clements Park.


Henry Riggs Rathbone

Major Rathbone was admitted to an asylum for the criminally insane in Hildesheim and Henry and his siblings were brought back to the United States to be raised by their uncle, William Harris.

Observatory, Cape Town

Beyond the astronomical observatory is Valkenberg psychiatric hospital, a Victorian building that has recently undergone extensive renovations.

Petey

The Corbins decided to give up on trying to receive good news regarding Petey and they send him to a Psychiatric Hospital in Warm Springs, Montana.

Return to House on Haunted Hill

Directed by Víctor García, the film depicts a group of people searching for a mysterious idol hidden inside a haunted psychiatric asylum.

San Salvador de Oña

The monastic complex came into the possession of the Province of Burgos in 1968, at which time it was used as a psychiatric hospital.

St Ann's Hospital

The hospital has until recently been largely a mental health care facility; however, it now also provides outpatient services, which include MRI and ophthalmological services.

Thorpe Coombe Hospital

It ceased maternity facilities in 1973 and was subsequently used as a nurses' home, then a treatment centre for Alzheimer's disease patients, and latterly an out-patients and inpatient service psychiatric hospital.

Victor Ardisson

Victor Ardisson was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in a psychiatric hospital at Pierrefeu-du-Var.

Warneford Meadow

Warneford Meadow was purchased in 1918 by the Warneford Hospital, a psychiatric hospital, following the sale of the adjacent Southfield Farm.

Western Cape Department of Health

The department also runs various specialised facilities, including six tuberculosis hospitals, four psychiatric hospitals, and a rehabilitation centre.

Winnebago Mental Health Institute

Winnebago Mental Health Institute (WMHI), formerly the Winnebago State Hospital, is a psychiatric hospital in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States located in the unincorporated community of Winnebago, Wisconsin.


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Albert Moore Barrett

William J. Henderson, M.D, the professor of nervous and mental diseases, was planning to open a small psychiatric hospital to be part of both the university and the state mental health system.

Amalie Skram

Her obligations as housewife, mother and author as well as the public's limited acceptance for her then-radical work, led to a further breakdown in 1894, after which Amalie lived in a psychiatric hospital near Roskilde.

Anita Leocádia Prestes

Her mother Olga was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp and from there to an experimental extermination camp set up at an old psychiatric hospital in Bernburg Euthanasia Centre in 1942, where she was gassed.

Blackwater Days

Blackwater Days features seven closely linked tales set around the Blackwater Psychiatric Hospital at Everton in the Hunter Region, featuring Dr Dan Truswell and his two "psychosleuths", Peter Rait and Philip Crow.

Caspar Max Brosius

In 1857 he established a private psychiatric hospital at his homestead in Bendorf, where he created a humanitarian environment for the mentally ill based on a philosophy he called the "familiare system" (family system).

Dinsdale Park

Following the sale of the property in 1914 by Aubone Surtees, the building has had various uses, including a psychiatric hospital, a local authority residential school and a nursing home.

Eliot Rosewater

Billy Pilgrim, the main character of the novel, has committed himself to a psychiatric hospital during his last year of optometry school, and finds himself sharing a room with Eliot Rosewater.

Elisa Godinez Gomez de Batista

Her family later moved to Wajay, when her father got employment at the psychiatric hospital known as Mazorra until 1921.

Frey Svenson

In the year of 1899 he worked at Upsala Hospital, which at that time was a psychiatric hospital rather than a medical hospital.

Georges Cipriani

After several years of solitary confinement and partial confinement, Georges Cipriani was committed to the psychiatric hospital of Villejuif during the summer of 1993.

Historisch museum APZ Wolfheze

The Historisch museum APZ Wolfheze is a museum located in Wolfheze in a former therapy building of the General Psychiatric Hospital ("Algemeen Psychiatrisch Ziekenhuis"), which was founded in 1907 and still exists there as part of the regional GGZ facility "Pro Persona".

Irmgard Huber

At the close of World War II, when American forces occupied the small German town of Hadamar, they heard rumors about the murder of the mentally ill patients at a local psychiatric hospital.

KPPC

Kings Park Psychiatric Center, the former New York state-run psychiatric hospital

Krośnice, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Count Adalbert von der Recke had established an Samaritan psychiatric hospital for children here in 1860, modeled after his orphanage in Düsseltal, Rhineland.

La seconda ombra

The film treats of developments related to the activities of Franco Basaglia, director of psychiatric hospital in Gorizia and promoter of Law 180.

Liu Xinjuan

Later that night, she was bound and gagged and transported to Minhang District Beiqiao Psychiatric Hospital.

Manatee Palms Youth Services

Manatee Palms Youth Services is a 60-bed psychiatric hospital in Bradenton, Florida, and a subsidiary of for-profit Psychiatric Solutions.

Mondragón

The spa at Santa Águeda (now a psychiatric hospital) was the location of the 1897 murder of Spanish politician Antonio Cánovas del Castillo by Michele Angiolillo.

Moopsball

In the novel There Are Doors by Gene Wolfe, Indoor Moopsball is played by inmates of a psychiatric hospital.

Norman Holmes Pearson

Pearson promoted Pound’s work apart from his political involvements, helping to prevent it from being “disappeared" due to Pound's very unpopular World War II politics and consequent incarceration at St. Elizabeths Hospital (a psychiatric hospital operated by the District of Columbia Department of Mental Health).

Parramatta River

Callan Park, a former psychiatric hospital, with fine sandstone buildings designed by James Barnet in 1877.

Roy Hart

In 1960 he began to work at Shenley Psychiatric Hospital, and maintained contacts with the psychotherapuetic world for the rest of his career.

Ryan's Fancy

Alden Nowlan's 1982 poem, He Sits Down on the Floor of a School for the Retarded described visiting a psychiatric hospital with Ryan's Fancy, as they have been asked to play for the patients

Ten Days in the Madhouse

This song describes the main character of the album, Thelma, who is a patient in the oldest psychiatric hospital of Hong Kong, Castle Peak Hospital.

Tiddington, Warwickshire

Until 2006 there was a National Health Service psychiatric hospital for elderly people located in the village until this merged with the main hospital in Stratford.

Tworki

District of Pruszków, a town on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland. Famous for the large psychiatric hospital, which opened in 1891 and is still operating to this day as a part of the Medical University of Warsaw.

Weltmer Bowl

The Weltmer Bowl is a multi purpose athletic field on the grounds of Spring Grove Hospital Center, a state-operated psychiatric hospital that is located in Catonsville, near Baltimore, Maryland.