A psychiatric hospital is a hospital for the treatment of psychological disturbances.

The term mental hospital is related, sees also neurology and psychiatry.

To define the "psychosomatischen hospitals" are in those also psychological disturbances to be treated.

In the today's time always frequent humans into psychiatric hospitals are instructed. There psychological diseases are treated and the patients are therapiert. The life of a patient in a psychiatric hospital (particularly on the closed stations) is strongly limited: they are subject to the supervision of the physicians and the remaining hospital personnel. In accordance with the American sociologist Erving Goffman belongs the psychiatric hospital to the group of the total institutions. Other total institutions Goffman calls prisons, barracks, boardings school, monasteries and homes for the elderly. Quotation Goffmann: A total institution can be defined as living and working place of a multiplicity of individuals similarly posed, who are cut off for longer time of the remaining society and an final, formally reglementiertes life to lead with one another.

Also within the range of the psychiatry it gives daily hospitals in which one acutely to be treated to be able can.

The difference to general hospitals agitates from the different working group. The psychiatric hospitals are financed by the Lands of the Federal Republic, the general hospitals of the municipalities.

In some psychiatric hospitals are particularly secured forensische stations for offenders.

For the history of the psychiatric hospital see mad house and lunatic asylum.

Related links

• Thesis of Martin Heinzelmann, University of Goettingen
• Seminar work by Janett Baumann, Otto-von Guericke university Magdeburg
• Overview of psychiatric hospitals

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