The story of Tworki was, until recently, like the stories of other hospitals and the history of international
psychiatry, a string of disappointed hopes, scientific failures, and fruitless attempts to heal patients.
Tworki has been surrounded by legends of evil almost from its beginnings, and it was the first infamous
‘nuthouse’ in Poland. The name of the hospital that stood by River Utrata filled people with dread, while
simultaneously inviting them to ridicule the ‘nutters’. And not much has changed here, though patients
today stay only for the course of their treatment, and the hospital is a mere episode in their lives.
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