Within three years, brick by inexpensive brick, the State Lunatic Asylum in Worcester was built on land that is now home to ...

Asylums have long captivated historians and urban explorers, serving as haunting reminders of the problematic origins of mental health care. Much like cemeteries, these institutions were used to ...

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 ...

(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 ...

During the Victorian era, mental asylums had a reputation of treating patients with inhumane methods. However, a West Sussex mental health hospital, built in the late 19th Century, was a pioneering ...

Nottingham pioneered the concept of publicly funded lunatic asylum in 1812 - but quickly encountered the problem of overcrowding in the facility. The Nottingham General Lunatic Asylum was built to ...