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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 128, No. 10

Articles | April 01, 1972

The First Psychiatric Hospital of the Western World

RUBEN D. RUMBAUT

Am J Psychiatry 1972;128:1305-1309.

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Staff Psychiatrist, Veterans Administration Hospital, Houston, Tex., and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, 1200 M.D. Anderson Blvd., Houston, Tex. 77025

1972, American Psychiatric Association

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Abstract

Although the historic beginnings of genuine psychiatric hospital treatment are still a matter of controversy, evidence is accumulating that the first authentic psychiatric hospitals in the Western world were founded in Spain during the 15th century. This paper describes the first of those hospitals, opened in 1410 by Father Juan Gilabert Jofré, a Mercedarian friar, and a group of concerned citizens of Valencia. The hospital is still in operation.

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