For some people, the allure—even the eeriness—of abandoned places draws them to dilapidated destinations year-round. For ...

Growing up as a boy in northern New Jersey, my first encounter with psychiatry was driving with my grandparents past a large, imposing hospital complex in Essex County called Overbrook. Built in a ...

Barely a trace of the old St Lawrence's hospital is left on Westheath Avenue, Bodmin. Although the iconic star-shaped ...

(CNN) — Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a ...

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 ...

It seems fitting that this history of mental health ends with Oregon’s attempt to grapple with the needs of children and ...

Vulnerable patients were drugged, electrocuted and raped inside Queensland’s infamous Wolston Park Hospital over a shocking ...

On May 8, 1897, South Dakota Senator Richard F. Pettigrew introduced a bill on the floor of the senate. Its purpose was to establish “an Indian insane asylum” at Canton. The bill was read twice and ...