A couple of things spurred me to write this post. First, in a matter of days (and along with colleagues Vicky Long and Despo Kritsotaki), I will be submitting a book proposal on the history of ...
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 ...
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How Historic Mental Asylums Became Places of Horror
Delve into the chilling history of historic mental asylums, where dark nightmares became reality. From barbaric treatments to the rise of psychotropic medication, witness the evolution of mental ...
April 17, 1871 - The Nebraska Asylum for the Insane burned to the ground on April 17, 1871. Ten people escaped the night of the fire, and at least one patient died. The other patients left homeless by ...
(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 ...
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