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NEWS ABOUT: mental hospital

mental hospital stories: 4 news summaries

Cops Catch Insane Killer Who Fled Field Trip in Wash.

Phillip Paul sparked state manhunt

Sep 20, 09 7:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - A schizophrenic killer who ducked out of a mental hospital field trip has been caught in south-central Washington, the Spokesman-Review reports. Phillip A. Paul, 47, slipped away at the Spokane County Interstate Fair on Thursday and triggered a police manhunt. A sherriff's deputy caught him today trying to hitch a... More »

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schizophrenia • murder • Washington • killer • mental hospital

(Newser) - Mental health experts have lost touch with the benefits of old-fashioned insane asylums, where patients once enjoyed a sense of community and jobs like cleaning and farming, Oliver Sacks writes in the New York Review of Books. Touching on a new book of Christopher Payne photographs called Asylum—which offers... More »

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schizophrenia • antipsychotic drugs • mental illness • asylum • mental hospital

 Boyle Rushed to 
 Mental Health Clinic 

Singing star hospitalized for exhaustion

Jun 1, 09 1:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - An emotionally drained Susan Boyle has been rushed to a celebrity mental health hospital in London, the Sun reports. The 48-year-old singing sensation was acting “spaced out” and strange at her hotel following her second-place finish in the show’s finals on Saturday, according to the staff of Britain’... More »

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mental health • exhaustion • nervous breakdowns • mental hospital • Susan Boyle • Britain's Got Talent

(Newser) - Elisabeth Fritzl was released today from the psychiatric institution where she has been hospitalized since being discovered in April, the Guardian reports. Recuperating with her at the hospital, and also released today, were the six surviving children fathered by Josef Fritzl, who is imprisoned awaiting trial on charges of... More »

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murder • Austria • incest • psychiatric treatment center • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • mental hospital • discharge

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