Dingleton Hospital News Today

The site forms part of the grounds of the former Dingleton Hospital, now converted into a successful apartment complex.

The proposed site was formerly an orchard for the hospital but has not functioned as such for a number of years.

THE achievements of a pioneering mental health hospital are to be celebrated this month on the 150th anniversary of its opening in Melrose.

Praised worldwide as a progressive provider of mental health care, Dingleton Hospital in Melrose was certainly ahead of its time.

Morton Schatzman, MD Psychotherapist and author Dr Joseph Burke - Credit: the family Medical doctor, psychotherapist and author Dr Joseph Herman Berke has died aged 81 from congestive heart failure. All the world’s a stage, and one man, Joe, in his time, played many parts. He was a hippie and beatnik, and later a Hasidic Jew.  He came to love Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. For years, once a month, a Kabbalah group met at his home. In 1970 he co-founded with his wife Roberta Elzey, my wife ...