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 ...

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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 ...

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This doesn’t “mean the return of the asylum” as “community-based mental health will remain central,” as it “in many respects is really a family-based system.” Thus, putting families ...

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

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 ...