Background: Alcohol treatment in facilities that have adopted the so-called apolinar model has a long tradition in our country. A certain "basic trio" of institutions based on this model was formed by the above mentioned Apolinář, as its carrier and flagship. Another one was psychiatric hospital Lojovice in 1958, later intended for women only. The last one, Červený Dvůr near Český Krumlov was found in 1960s. It became the largest specialized institution for treatment of alcohol addiction in the former Czechoslovakia. Goals: Mapping the history of today's psychiatric hospital Červený Dvůr with the focus on these partial goals: Origin and development, in the initial stage with LSD treatment and the beginning of artetherapy. Find out what kind of patients was the treatment determined for. How the capacity varied and how the program differed in each stage of development. In addition, people who have somehow influenced the origin, development, and therapeutic program. Also personnel changes and interconnection of the significant monument and medical institution. Methods: A document analysis, which is a search for suitable sources, was used to collect the data. In this case was mainly used so-called "medical tool" Červenodvorská cesta and Zápisy z Apolináře. Next titles were specialized magazines...