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Girl, Interrupted begins in April, 1967, as 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen is admitted to McLean Hospital after attempting suicide by overdosing on pills. This is roughly the same time that she has a sexual relationship with her high school English teacher, and breaks up with her boyfriend. She has also been engaging in self-harm and has problems with memory loss. Although she denies attempting suicide, a psychiatrist convinces her to spend a few weeks at McLean, a private psychiatric hospital with a good reputation. However, soon after being admitted, Susanna is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. This allows the doctors to forcibly extend her stay from a few weeks to eighteen months.

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For many, the phrase "psychiatric asylum" conjures up haunting and disturbing images: lobotomy procedures, drugged and restrained patients, the creepy facility in the movie "Shutter Island," the cruel Nurse Ratched from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." But that image may be outdated.

In a provocative new paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, bioethicists at the University of Pennsylvania outline the crisis of mental-health care in the United States, and propose a solution: Rehabilitate the ill-reputed institution of the psychiatric asylum.

"It's really not as radical as it sounds," said Dominic A. Sisti, assistant professor of medical ethics, health policy, and psychiatry. Psychiatrists have been making arguments for expanding long-term inpatient care for some time, he says. In their call to "bring back the asylum," Sisti and his colleagues speak of the original, 19th-century meaning of the term asylum: a place that is a safe sanctuary, that provides long-term care for the mentally ill. "It is time to build them-again," they write.

Although psychiatric hospitals still exist, the dearth of long-term care options for the mentally ill in the U.S. is acute, the researchers say. State-run psychiatric facilities house 45,000 patients, less than a tenth of the number of patients they did in 1955. With the doubling of the U.S. population, the researchers write, this is a 95 percent decline.

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Should the U.S. Bring Back Psychiatric Asylums?

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For many, the phrase "psychiatric asylum" conjures up haunting and disturbing images: lobotomy procedures, drugged and restrained patients, the creepy facility in the movie "Shutter Island," the cruel Nurse Ratched from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." But that image may be outdated.

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In the 1960s more drugs were developed to treat patients with schizophrenia and depression. These drugs were developed in efforts to demolish the ECT system because it was thought of as a brutal way to control mental patients who seemed to be "troublesome." Today ETC is only used a rare cases involving severe depression that does not respond to psychiatric drugs. With rare exceptions, it is only used at the patient’s request.

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Laws for the government were repealed when a new presidency began, this cut down on how many people state facilities could hold because of their lack of budget. This caused them to discharge thousands of patients around the world. People later realized that these facilities were necessary but the harsh treatments were not. Medicine was being developed