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[[File:Francisco Goya - Casa de locos.jpg|thumb|[[Francisco de Goya]] (1746-1828), ''Casa de Locos'' (House of Fools) shows how fools were treated before specialized treatment was avaiable.]]
[[Image:Narrenturm Vienna June 2006 577.jpg|thumb|The ''Narrenturm'' in [[Vienna]] (translates to fools' tower) was the first specialised building to lodge mentally ill patients. It was built in 1784. It is a [[museum]] of medical history today.]]
A '''psychiatric hospital''' is a place where [[mental illness|mentally ill]] people are kept, sometimes until [[Medical doctor|doctors]] are ready to place them into [[halfway house]]s, where they are slowly released into [[society]]. Group homes are open to people when they are released from a psychiatric hospital.
Usually people choose to be in a psychiatric hospital. Sometimes psychiatrists decide to put people in hospitals who do not want to be there, because they think the people are dangerous to themselves or other people.
Psychiatric hospitals used to be called lunatic asylums.
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[[Category:psychiatry]]
[[Category:Hospitals]]
[[Image:Narrenturm Vienna June 2006 577.jpg|thumb|The ''Narrenturm'' in [[Vienna]] (translates to fools' tower) was the first specialised building to lodge mentally ill patients. It was built in 1784. It is a [[museum]] of medical history today.]]
A '''psychiatric hospital''' is a place where [[mental illness|mentally ill]] people are kept, sometimes until [[Medical doctor|doctors]] are ready to place them into [[halfway house]]s, where they are slowly released into [[society]]. Group homes are open to people when they are released from a psychiatric hospital.
Usually people choose to be in a psychiatric hospital. Sometimes psychiatrists decide to put people in hospitals who do not want to be there, because they think the people are dangerous to themselves or other people.
Psychiatric hospitals used to be called lunatic asylums.
{{multistub|med|science}}
[[Category:psychiatry]]
[[Category:Hospitals]]