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| Unger Institute of Mental Health | |
| Continuity: | Friday the 13th |
| Aliases: | Unger Institute Unger Institute for Mental Health |
| Category: | Medical center |
| Continent: | North America |
| Country: | United States of America |
| State: | New Jersey |
| County: | Wessex County |
| Residents: | Billy Macauley |
| 1st appearance: | Friday the 13th: A New Beginning |
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.
Billy assisted another driver who brought Tommy Jarvis from the Unger institute to Pinehurst. Tommy fell asleep in the back of the transport vehicle and had a terrible nightmare of Jason Voorhees attacking him as a child.