Meaning of psych hospital | Babel Free

Definitions

Clipped compound of psychiatric hospital.

informal

Examples

“It may well be that the probes into National Medical’s psych hospitals by federal officials in Texas, Florida and New Jersey won’t turn up the overbilling or unnecessary stays that critics of psychiatric programs allege are commonplace.”

“From hotline to psych hospital, the focus is on risk management. […] Over the past two years, in the United States, she has given dozens of talks on suicide and the Hearing Voices movement to audiences of several hundred at conferences, to social-work graduate students, to staff at psych hospitals on grand rounds.”

“The man told me his story: divorce, layoff, layoff, a series of visits to psych hospitals, making money by collecting bottles and cans, sleeping in an abandoned pickup truck during the recent frigid spell, which was cold, but he had a comforter.”

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