Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center

The Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center, built in 1951, is a public psychiatric hospital in Givat Shaul, Jerusalem, Israel. It is affiliated with the Hadassah Medical Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.For example, as a source for the location, G. Katz 2002. The hospital is Jerusalem's designated psychiatric hospital for tourists who display mental health disturbances, and is widely known for its research on Jerusalem Syndrome.The Jerusalem Syndrome 
The hospital is also known for being established on the intact Palestinian village of Deir Yassin, which was depopulated by Jewish forces in April 1948, one month before the creation of the state of Israel.
==History==
The hospital stands on the site of the former Palestinian Arab village of Deir Yassin, where 107Kana'ana and Zeitawi, 1987, pp. 5, 57; Gelber 2006, p. 311.villagers were killed on April 9, 1948 by fighters from two militant Zionist groups, the Irgun and the Lehi.Ettinger, Yair. Deir Yassin massacre, 55 years on, April 10, 2003. 
Construction of the mental health facility began in 1951, using the villagers' houses and the village school. It housed a therapeutic community of around 300 patientsProgress in Psychotherapy, American Psychiatric Association, Grune & Stratton, 1949. who spent almost all their time outdoors, and was called the Kfar Shaul Government Work Village for Mental Patients.Khalidi 1992, p. 292.The Israel Annals of Psychiatry and Related Disciplines], Jerusalem Academic Press, Israel Psychiatric Association, 1972.Hodgkins 1998, p. 109. 
The hospital grounds are closed to the public, including to the refugees and their families.List of Zochrot visits, Zochrot, accessed June 14, 2009.
==Jerusalem Syndrome==
The hospital is also known for its association with Jerusalem Syndrome, a condition in which the sufferer is gripped by religious delusions, thinking himself Jesus or that he holds the key to world peace. The syndrome was first diagnosed in 1993 by Dr Yair Bar-El, a former director of the hospital, which has become a kind of "holding pen" for sufferers, according to Time.Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2003.Beyer 1995 The New York Times reports that 50-200 tourists are overwhelmed every year by the religious significance of the city, and are driven mad by it. "For many it is a short trip," the Times notes.Haberman 1992.
The New York Times reports that 50-200 tourists are affected by such delusions every year. Around half the sufferers are from North America, and usually the U.S., with the rest from Western Europe; half are Jews and half Christians. 
==See also==
*1948 Palestinian exodus
*List of hospitals in Israel
==Notes==
==References==
*Beyer, Lisa (1995). Crazy? Hey, you never know, Time, April 17, 1995.
*Ettinger, Yair (2003). Deir Yassin massacre, 55 years on, April 10, 2003.
*Gelber, Yoav (2006). Palestine 1948. See Appendix II: "Propaganda as History: What Happened at Deir Yassin?". Sussex Academic Press.
*Haberman, Clyde (1992). What Makes 'Samson' Run Amok? He's Manic in Jerusalem, May 13, 1992.
*Hodgkins, Allison B. (1998). Israeli settlement policy in Jerusalem. Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs.
*Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2003). The Jerusalem Syndrome, September 6, 2003.
*Kananah, Sharif and Zaytuni, Nihad (1988). Deir Yassin (Destroyed Palestinian Villages), Birzeit University Press, oclc 29364942 
*Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies.
*Lapidot, Yehuda (1992). Besieged, Jerusalem 1948: Memories of an Irgun Fighter. See part II, Jerusalem, for the section on Deir Yassin.
*Zochrot, accessed June 14, 2009
==Further reading==
*McGowan, Daniel. Deir Yassin Remembered, video showing scenes of the village's houses inside the hospital, Deir Yassin Remembered.
*McGowan, Daniel and Ellis, Marc. (eds) (1998). Remembering Deir Yassin: The Future of Israel and Palestine. Interlink Publishing Group.
*Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press.
*Zochrot. Remembering Deir Yassin, 2006.
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