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mental home

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noun

  1. a home, hospital, or institution for people who are mentally ill

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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

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

For the past 22 years she has lived almost continuously in a mental home.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had a teacher three months of this year; she is now in a mental home.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is a mental home near Grasse where I believe they would take her; I can telephone and find out.

From Juggernaut by Campbell, Alice

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