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 ...

The goal is to get the more of the mentally ill into psychiatric hospitals and outpatient care. However, some fear it is a ...

Refugees with preexisting mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and psychosis, often face greater challenges when trying to navigate asylum systems. In many refugee ...

Exploring a spooky Mental Asylum with a rather interesting history. It has been rumored to be haunted by all of the mistreated patients. Trump signs 'No Men in Women's Sports' executive order The ...

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

After deadly knife attacks involving suspects with an immigrant background, curbing immigration has come to dominate ...

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

Despite the horror stories that unfolded in asylums before the 1990s, Crichton Hall became a pioneer in mental health treatment. In Saturday Magazine in 1839, the hospital was said to ...

His comments have been edited: There have always been problems with public mental health. In the days when asylums were the predominant method of treating seriously mentally ill persons ...