Former asylum Willow Court joins locations such as a former concentration camp in Europe and an African slave house as one of ...

Asylums have long captivated historians and urban explorers, serving as haunting reminders of the problematic origins of mental health care. Much like cemeteries, these institutions were used to ...

Decades of failed mental health policies have placed law enforcement on the front line of mental illness crisis response and turned jails and prisons into the new asylums. Deinstitutionalization, ...

Dr William Minor was one of the most prolific contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary. Unknown to many, he was also ...

They concluded that while events that occur prior to migration influence the mental health of asylum-seekers and refugees, “the majority of stress factors are directly related to post-migration ...