The early days included strange devices, diagnoses in a system where the Utah State Hospital was the only treatment option ...

A 104-bed facility for seriously ill detainees is mostly finished but unopened — three years late and nearly double its ...

Asylum Street became a dead end when the highway went in. It is now sandwiched between a short highway ramp and Foley Engines ...

The long-deserted Medfield State Hospital makes for a haunting site, inspiring filmmakers for years with its dark, shadowy ...

The psychological thriller, written and directed by Martin, follows the events inside a sinister facility where a dedicated ...

Central State Hospital was founded in 1870 as the Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane at a former Confederate field hospital in Richmond’s East End.

Poveglia is a layered time capsule of tragedy. It was once a bustling community which was turned into a quarantine zone, then ...

After centuries of brutal mistreatment, a new kind of institution offered hope to the mentally ill.

Can you imagine thinking, "let's take this eerie, old, abandoned mental hospital and turn it into a brewery." Yes, there really is a former psychiatric hospital where the only therapy now is ...

And that was operationalized in America by Thomas Kirkbride, who was the head of a hospital and the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane as it was called in the 19th century.

The story of American deinstitutionalization has become familiar. In a long arc—from President Kennedy’s Community Mental Health Act of 1963 to the present—federal and state governments dismantled ...

Usually the mention of an old, closed-down insane asylum brings to mind images of inhumanely treated patients, ghosts and bad TV. When it comes to the Hastings State Hospital, however, the Dakota ...