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Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center is a
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Psychiatric hospitals in New York (state)
New York State Department of Mental Hygiene
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psychiatric hospital
Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental health hospitals, behavioral health hospitals, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, dissociative ...
located in Utica. Its predecessor was established in 1836.
History
''Mohawk Valley Psychiatric'' was once called Utica State Hospital; the latter was alunatic asylum
The lunatic asylum (or insane asylum) was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital.
The fall of the lunatic asylum and its eventual replacement by modern psychiatric hospitals explains the rise of organized, institutional psychiatry ...
. This haven for the insane was highlighted in 1999 as among New York's "shrinking hospitals for the mentally ill for years. An empty corridor."
Utica State Hospital
was one of the first hospitals of its type in the United States. It was initially named ''The New York Lunatic Asylum''. To rehabilitate some of its patients "a printing shop was established." In 1844 they published "''American Journal of Insanity'', the world's first journal devoted to mental illness." "McPike Addiction Treatment Center is a 68-bed inpatient facility located in Utica, New York, on the campus of the Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center (MVPC)."See also
*Utica Psychiatric Center
The Utica Psychiatric Center, also known as Utica State Hospital, opened in Utica on January 16, 1843.
It was New York's first state-run facility designed to care for the mentally ill, and one of the first such institutions in the Un ...
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Brick buildings and structures
Psychiatric hospitals in New York (state)
New York State Department of Mental Hygiene
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