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

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

A SINISTER abandoned asylum which has starred in several blockbuster films is set to receive a massive £22million make-over.

Similarly, most of the psychiatric hospitals constructed in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries—previously known as “mental asylums”—no longer exist.

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 ...

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

But soon, the public will be able to peek inside the place once known as the Highland Insane Asylum. The hospital is planning to open a museum to show the evolution of more than 100 years of ...

The Insane Hospital opened on the eve of the Civil War in April 1861 with a mission of humane treatment and rehabilitation of mental patients, as well as those with addictions or suffering a ...

Our son's wait for a bed in a state mental hospital with 930 beds was measured in weeks. ... Even asylums as portrayed in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" can be transformed into real solutions.

The hour-long documentary tells the story of how patients landed at the psychiatric hospital in ... And that's when I found my way to the Athens insane asylum. - In 1874, when the asylum ...

The mental hospital is a flexible thing. Not only is it a real place, but it’s also a metaphor. Ever since the large mental institutions went up in the 1800s, they have served as stand-ins for ...