History of Iran Psychiatry Hospital

Abstract

Navab Safavi Mental Hospital was established in 1981 while it suffered from considerable shortages in therapeutic and welfare infrastructures, as well as in professional human resources. After foundation of Iran University of Medical Sciences in 1986 the hospital was involved in training nurses, medical stu-dents, and psychiatric residents. In 2001, by request of Navab Safavi's family the name was changed to Iran Psychiatric Hospital and Now, after 35 years, the hospital has 160 beds in 6 wards, including men, women, neurotic (Mehr), emergency, substance and alcohol wards, and extensive facilities like commu-nity psychiatry, cognitive-behavioral and analytical psychotherapies, neurocognitive lab, and substance use disorder clinic. The increasing growth of Iran Psychiatric Hospital in more than 3 decades has been in line with qualitative and quantitative development