Century-old photographs of patients treated in a mental asylum during the Victorian and Edwardian eras are being unearthed to ...

By the mid-1800's, mental health treatment was found primarily in large institutions called "insane asylums," also known as "lunatic asylums." In 1842, the Georgia Lunatic Asylum became the largest ...

The U.K. asylum system systematically wears down people seeking asylum, creating a cycle of psychological harm that undermines their ability to cope with continued adversity in the U.K., according to ...

It left patients as "shells of their former selves".

This year, I taught a brand-new class on the history of the psychiatric asylum with my colleague, Dr Hannah Proctor. "Bedlam and Beyond: The Controversial History of the Asylum" is a seminar-based ...

(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 ...

Mental health care is a very important aspect of society, but due to significant demand and strained resources many people do not receive the help they need. However, taking a look back into ...