mental home

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Mr. Ochs demanded that he and his brother, who suffers from a different form of the same condition, take a pledge never to incarcerate the other in a mental home.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2010

In Black Picture Show, Playwright Bill Gunn's hero is already hospitalized, or rather, confined to a Bronx, New York City, mental home.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a short novel by a Brooklyn psychiatrist, actually little more than two case histories with dialogue, about a curative love that develops between two teen-age children in a suburban mental home.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last season, in Home, Storey made old age in a mental home his metaphor for the decline and fragmentation of empire.

From Time Magazine Archive

All educated Americans, first or last, go to Europe,—perhaps because it is their mental home, as the invalid habits of this country might suggest.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various