On The Construction, Organization And General Arrangements Of Hospitals For The Insane (1854)

Dr. Thomas Kirkbride was born in Pennsylvania in 1809. He went to the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and was originally planning to become a surgeon. But after his training and internship with a friend in 1840? Exiled, he was proposed to be the newly established head of Crazy Hospital, Pennsylvania. "His ambition, wisdom, and a strong purpose consciousness allowed him to take advantage of this position as one of the most important mental health facilities in the late nineteenth century." He quickly became an American mad medical director It became a founding member of the Association, and later elected President

Construction began in the beginning of the century, the first patient was hospitalized in Pennhurst State School and hospital in November 1908. Once entered, each patient is classified mentally. It is "low energy" or "mental illness", physically "epilepsy" or "health". In that year the facility became overcrowded, the staff could not provide adequate care for each patient and some people abused them. Long-term overcrowding and patient abuse has started from the early days of the institution, and it has not stopped before shutting down

The second most influential person in the history of American psychiatric hospital is Thomas Story Kirkbride. As a psychiatrist in the state of Pennsylvania, Kirk Bled established the American Medical Council Association for the disabled, which later became the American Psychiatric Association. He is best known as the founder of the Kirkbride program for the establishment of the National Mental Hospital. Kirkbride Hospital is representative of the most classical and numerous evacuation centers built in the 19th century.

Data from psychiatric inpatients at public mental hospitals, private mental hospitals, and general hospitals were collected from the 2004 Mental Health Organization List (I), conducted by the US Department of Health and Human Services Department of Drug Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) The office of the). Statistics 35 Data from the 2004 survey has not been published before and is considered to be temporary. The number of hospitalized patients was obtained on the first day of the hospital's reporting year, most of which was January 1st or July 1st. Because in the United States a psychiatric hospital bed is short, most inpatients suffer from a severe psychiatric disorder, but a few patients in psychiatry at private hospitals and general hospitals are not diagnosed with substance abuse.