Joan Paul Alcivar De La Cruz fled persecution in Ecuador and was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at his ...

A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him," author Jon Stock tells the story of women subjected to various medical procedures without their consent.

After nearly four hours of waiting outside the office, the worst came to pass.

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

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.