The Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians stands as a haunting symbol of the systemic violence and neglect inflicted upon Native Americans during the waning days of the Old West. Established in 1899 ...

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 ...

The Willow Court precinct in New Norfolk, Tasmania has been recognised as a "Site of Conscience" — joining a global network of more than 300 sites that aims to preserve and memorialise their ...

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 ...

"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 ...

The asylum was ... Carolina State Hospital for the Insane. In that first century of existence, more than 20,000 people were sent to Bull Street. Around that same time, the mental facility housed ...

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 ...

My first encounter with the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum was through what it forgot ... explained that the New York Hospital first began admitting those deemed to be experiencing mental illness in the ...

if she was against the idea “now that you know that Trump is for insane asylums?” Tarlov then acknowledged that state mental hospitals were shut down largely because of “inhumane treatment ...

In Alabama’s Mount Vernon Insane Hospital, for example ... Its ambition was to replace the traditional asylum system with some 2,000 community mental health centres, designed to both provide ...

The name “Bellevue” may bring to mind the infamous Bellevue psychiatric ... operated chronic disease hospitals. In 1956, plans were underway to remove Bellevue Asylum. The Western Maryland ...