psychiatric hospital

Thân thiện

A doctor speaks with a patient in the psychiatric hospital's garden.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A medical institution specializing in the treatment and care of people with severe mental illnesses: A "psychiatric hospital" is a facility where patients receive diagnosis, therapy, and long-term care for psychiatric disorders.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • After his breakdown, he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for treatment.
  • The new policy aims to improve conditions in state-run psychiatric hospitals.

Advanced Usage

• "to be committed to a psychiatric hospital": to be formally admitted, often by legal or medical authority, for inpatient psychiatric care.
  • The court ordered him to be committed to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation.

Variants and Related Words

• Mental hospital (n): A synonym for psychiatric hospital.
• Psychiatric ward (n): A specialized unit for psychiatric care within a general hospital, not a standalone hospital.
• Asylum (n): An older, now often outdated or historical term for an institution for the care of mentally ill people.

Synonyms

• Mental institution
• Psychiatric institution
• Mental health facility

Related Phrases

• Inpatient psychiatric care: Treatment provided while the patient stays at the hospital.
  • She required inpatient psychiatric care to stabilize her condition.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

Từ đồng nghĩa

• mental hospital
• mental institution
• institution
• mental home
• insane asylum
• asylum