Buell Hall is the only reminder of the lost Bloomingdale Asylum and the battle between real estate and mental health in ...

In the mid- to late 1800s, insane asylums served ... sentenced to languish in asylums? Their stories also serve to highlight the chauvinism of early psychiatry, which often punished women for ...

Dyfed Powys Police says increased social media interest has led to a rise in people going to the the Mid Wales Hospital, which closed in 1999.

Crichton Hall was used in the Victorian era as an asylum for the mentally ill before it was taken over by the NHS - now it is ...

However, these statistics do not show which country the arrested people come from. We did not find public records documenting ...

The city's asylum was the first to ban restraints.

Award-winning author, Professor Paul Crawford draws on his research into lunatic asylums in his latest novel, The Wonders of ...

Peat Island was established as an asylum for “inebriates” in 1911 before it was reopened as a psychiatric hospital, just 50km north of Sydney. If the walls could talk they would tell of the ...

New plans have been unveiled to transform an island that housed an asylum with a dark history ... facility in 1911 for people with physical and mental disabilities and was run by the NSW state ...

Four different meanings of how 'institutionalization' in psychiatry is conceptualized were identified from sixty-one papers across eleven different countries, i.e. bricks and mortar of care ...