Mental hospitals embody “the kind of out ... Early in the 20th century, a new medium brought us an enduring asylum character. The insane physician shines in the 1920 surrealist masterpiece ...

Known pointedly as Morisset Hospital for the Insane when it opened in 1909, the asylum was an industrial farm colony and a ...

traced the history of state mental hospitals in the United States. Beginning in the first half of the nineteenth century, states constructed “insane asylums” to house those deemed mentally unfit.

the mental hospital. Nearly 60 years after Congress barred Medicaid from treating people in what were then derided as insane asylums, lawmakers are on the verge of reversing course. The reasons ...

Players navigate the Volterra Psychiatric Hospital as 16-year-old Renee, an inmate at the asylum. Locals would refer to the asylum as "the place of no return", with those diagnosed as insane ...

"An insane asylum is a mental institution on steroids ... The word asylum didn't connote psychiatric hospitals and mental illness until the turn of the 18th century. Even then, British reformers ...

(WSET) — When the American Psychiatric Association ... the Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane at Howard’s Grove, a former Confederate hospital just outside of Richmond in Henrico ...

The Hospital on the Hill Buell Hall’s ... The displacement of the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum exemplifies how mental health facilities struggled, and continue to struggle, in New York’s ...

Shuttered for more than 40 years, the Italian Volterra Psychiatric Hospital is ... would refer to the asylum as "the place of no return", with those diagnosed as insane unable to leave.