mental institution

Noun

Meaning

a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

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Examples

I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards. Darrell Hammond

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out. Quincy Jones

When we didn't make the picture, Dan O'Bannon needed to be interned in a mental institution for two years, suffering because we didn't get to do "Dune." And when he came out he wrote the script for "Alien." "Alien" was the reaction to not doing "Dune." Who would believe that? But it's true! Alejandro Jodorowsky

You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you tell a psychiatrist his mental institution came from a lazar house, he becomes infuriated. Michel Foucault

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up. Crispin Glover

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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