On May 6, 1946, Life magazine published "Bedlam ... the mental-hospital systems of almost every state. Consider, for instance, the shocking data on brutality and physical abuse of the patients.

He was sent to the city’s ‘madhouse’, Darien House — the notorious Edinburgh Bedlam. This was little more than a prison where patients ... the Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum, which began ...

England's inaugural mental health asylum. The institution gained such notoriety that it became a macabre attraction where people would visit to mock the patients. Today, the Bethlem Royal Hospital ...