The Psychiatric Clinic in Prague ( cs, Psychiatrická klinika v Praze) is the oldest
psychiatric hospital
Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental health hospitals, behavioral health hospitals, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, dissociat ...
in the
Czech Republic
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. Part of
Prague
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's General Faculty Hospital, the clinic has five inpatient wards and also provides integrated day treatment. An expansion in 2000 added a day care centre for adolescents.
The clinic's hot line, established in 1964, was the first of its kind in
Europe
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.
Notable physicians
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Benjamin Čumpelík
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Jan Dobiáš
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Antonín Heveroch
Antonín Heveroch (19 January 1869 – 2 March 1927) was a Czech psychiatrist and neurologist. After working at the Psychiatric Clinic in Prague, he left it and established a second psychiatric hospital.
Early years
Heveroch was born in 1869 in ...
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Jan Janský
Jan Janský () (3 April 1873 in Smíchov, now Prague – 8 September 1921 in Černošice, near Prague) was a Czech serologist, neurologist and psychiatrist. He is credited with the classification of blood into four types (I, II, III, IV).Book ...
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František Köstel
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Karel Kuffner
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Jan Mečíř
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Zdeněk Mysliveček
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Jiří Raboch
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Jaroslav Skála
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Vladimír Vondráček
Vladimír Vondráček, M.D. (February 23, 1895, Prague – May 10, 1978) was a leading Czech psychiatrist. He is considered one of the founders of Czech medical psychology, psychopharmacology, dietetics and psychiatric sexology. After World War II, ...
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Petr Zvolský
References
External links
Official website
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Psychiatric hospitals in the Czech Republic
Hospitals in Prague
Hospitals established in the 1780s