Unger Institute of Mental Health

The Unger Institute for Mental Health is a fictional mental health facility featured in the Friday the 13th film series. It is referenced in the 1985 sequel movie Friday the 13th: A New Beginning.

The Unger Institute for Mental Health is located somewhere in Wessex County. In the mid 1980s, it established a releationship with a nearby halfway house known as the Pinehurst Youth Development Center. Some of the Unger Institute's patients were remanded to the care of Pinehurst's administrator, Matthew Letter. An unscrupulous cocaine-using driver named Billy Macauley occasionally transported patients from the institute to Pinehurst.