Researching the history of the asylum can be a case of feast and famine, often at the same time. Some asylums left, if not mountains of records, then at least large hills. I mean that literally. An ...

Eerie photos show the interior of an abandoned asylum, which has featured in several seriously creepy films. Urban explorer Ben Stevens ventured to the long-deserted Medfield State Hospital, formerly ...

PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — When the American Psychiatric Association celebrated its 175th anniversary three years ago in San Francisco, it featured photographs of two Virginia mental institutions that ...

The UB Art Galleries is calling on the Buffalo community to help preserve the stories of women who were once patients at the former Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, now the site of the historic ...

By the late 1960s, more than 4,000 patients lived behind its red-brick walls. Treatments included electroshock therapy, restraints, and even lobotomies. Underground tunnels connected the buildings — ...

Introduction -- What can't be cured must be endured -- Biological psychiatry and the "happy drone" -- Communities, selfhood, and "loney crowds" -- From possessive to expressive individualism -- ...

Archaeologists at the University of Mississippi Medical Center have discovered new details about the burial timelines at the Asylum Hill project, where graves were first found in 2012 during campus ...