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Is being institutionalized and incarcerated in a mental hospital the same thing?
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∙ 12y ago
Institutionalization is the act of being placed in a psychiatric hospital, which is often referred to politely as an "institution".
Incarceration is the detention of a person in jail, typically as punishment for a crime.
This being said, someone could be incarcerated into a psychiatric hospital, but only if they committed a crime. Otherwise, it would be described as Institutionalization, because they did not do anything wrong, they are only being sent to the institution because of their mental state.
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