The First Psychiatric Hospital of the Western World
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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