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'''[[w:Psychiatric hospital|Psychiatric hospitals]]''', also known as''' mental hospitals''', '''mental health units''', '''{{w|mental asylums}}''' or simply '''asylums''', are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of serious mental illness.
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== Quotes ==
* I do not oppose the insane asylum—but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.
** [[Eugene V. Debs]], "What's the matter with Chicago?" (1902)
* The psychiatrist unfailingly recognizes the madman by his excited behavior on being incarcerated.
** [[Karl Kraus]], (1874-1936), as cited in ''Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus’s Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry'', Syracuse University Press, 1990.
* He grabbed me. We got into a terrible [[fight]]. My [[verdict]] was given: “You will now be given an [[w:Electroconvulsive therapy|electric shock]], Shagufta. We need to [[calm]] you down.” I tore away, and ran to the other side of the asylum, and on one of its walls, I wrote: “[[w:Nazi concentration camps|Nazi Camp]].” He began grinning.
** [[Sara Shagufta]], ''[https://desiwriterslounge.net/articles/papercuts-monologues-from-the-mental-asylum-sara-shagufta/ Monologues from the Mental Asylum]'', an excerpt from ''The Lost Journals of Sara Shagufta'', 1982, translated from the Urdu by Asad Alvi, ''Desi Writers' Lounge''.
* This evening, I am being released. I sit in the courtyard of the {{w|Karachi}} Psychiatric Asylum and write this. Half an hour ago, the women bid me farewell; they gathered about me: we all began crying together in loud, mournful tones. The eye on the lock shut itself: the door was opened. They stood clinging to the bars, still crying. I turned and asked, perplexed: “Aren’t you happy for me girls? I’m finally free.” “No Sara Shagufta.” They spoke, almost in one voice. “Don’t you know? You’re now stepping into the real mental asylum.”
** [[Sara Shagufta]], ''[https://desiwriterslounge.net/articles/papercuts-monologues-from-the-mental-asylum-sara-shagufta/ Monologues from the Mental Asylum]'', an excerpt from ''The Lost Journals of Sara Shagufta'', 1982, translated from the Urdu by Asad Alvi, ''Desi Writers' Lounge''.
== See also ==
* ''[[Madhouse (1974 film)]]''
* [[Prison]]
* [[Psychiatry]]
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== External links ==
{{wikipedia}}
{{Commons category|Psychiatric hospitals}}
{{Authority control}}
[[Category:Hospitals]]
[[Category:Psychiatry|hospital]]
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