mental institutions
Where patients reside
Mental institutions are facilities for treating people with serious psychiatric disorders, especially those requiring long-term residential care.
The term carries connotations of outdated, often inhumane treatment—straightjackets, padded cells, involuntary commitment.
Modern usage tends toward psychiatric hospital or mental health facility, while mental institution evokes the grimmer history: They threatened to have her committed to a mental institution.
- asylumsProtected shelters from danger
- insane asylumFacility for mentally ill
- psychiatric hospitalsInpatient facilities for mental illness
- lunatic asylumsInstitutions for mentally ill
- state hospitalGovernment-run psychiatric facility
hospitals · psychiatry · patient rights · psychosurgery · residential care · therapy · straitjacket · straight jacket · confinement · outsider art · treatment · psychiatric wards · involuntary commitment · ward · electroconvulsive therapy · shock treatment · nervous breakdown · crisis intervention
mental institutionsoutpatient clinics
Medical facilities without overnight stays
self-help groups · home care · outpatient care · private practice · teletherapy
mental institutionswellness retreats
Restorative destination programs
meditation centers · spas · health resorts · yoga retreats · rehabilitation centers
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