lunatic asylums
Victorian psychiatric institutions
Lunatic asylums were institutions for confining and treating the mentally ill, common from the 18th through mid-20th century.
The term reflects older views of madness as lunar-influenced and is now considered archaic and offensive.
Modern equivalents are psychiatric hospitals or mental health facilities.
The old lunatic asylum on the hill has been converted to condominiums.
- sanitariumMedical recovery facility
- madhouseChaotic, disordered place
- loony binSlang psychiatric facility
- snake pitDen of venomous reptiles
- institutionEstablished organization or custom
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- medical historyHippocrates, germ theory, bloodletting, Galen, four humors
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Institutions for recovery programs
mental health clinics · wellness centers · psychiatric wards · sanitariums · spas
lunatic asylumsoutpatient clinics
Medical facilities without overnight stays
lunatic asylumsfreedom
Absence of constraint
independent living · liberty · community living · home · open society
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