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"The insane asylum" is an outdated term for a mental hospital, which evolved from early institutions that often confined people with mental illness in terrible conditions, to more modern facilities that offer treatment. While some early asylums were envisioned as places of refuge and cure, many became overcrowded and abusive, with patients subjected to neglect, cruel or bizarre "treatments," and isolation. The public perception of asylums has been heavily influenced by this grim history, though the term itself originally meant "shelter" or "grace".
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"The insane asylum" is an outdated term for a mental hospital, which evolved from early institutions that often confined people with mental illness in terrible conditions, to more modern facilities that offer treatment. While some early asylums were envisioned as places of refuge and cure, many became overcrowded and abusive, with patients subjected to neglect, cruel or bizarre "treatments," and isolation. The public perception of asylums has been heavily influenced by this grim history, though the term itself originally meant "shelter" or "grace".