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4 Mental hospitals in film and television

Mental hospitals are often depicted as frightening places in fiction, where treatments are forced upon inmates by uncaring staff, or inmates themselves are either violently deranged or sinister. Although there have been cases of abuse of patients in real life, and some conditions do occasionally result in violent behavior, this stereotype of mental hospitals is misleading.

Some recent depictions of mental hospitals in fiction include:

• Arkham Asylum in - TV series
• Girl, Interrupted - movie
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - movie
• Patch Adams - at the beginning of the film Hunter "Patch" Adams ( Robin Williams) checks himself into a mental hospital, and eventually leaves AMA after discovering what he needs isn't there.
• Session 9 - movie
• Sharon's Secret - movie
• In the movie , Sarah Connor is locked away for her (apparently) delusory belief that the end of the world is about to be brought about by a killer artificial intelligence
• In the movie Twelve Monkeys Bruce Willis's character is, rather understandably, placed into a psychiatric hospital because of his claims that he is from the future. He meets the manic character played by Brad Pitt within.
• - In this film, the female main character is placed in an institution. Gorey deaths, werewolves, and crazy little girl named Ghost.

5 See also

• Royal Earlswood Hospital - a British asylum
• History of mental illness
• Mental health law

6 External links

• BBC News report on British mental hospitals
• Lawrence Stevens' views (from an antipsychiatry viewpoint)
• Information about Pennhurst School for the Mentally Retarded located in Spring City, PA

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