This year, I taught a brand-new class on the history of the psychiatric asylum with my colleague, Dr Hannah Proctor. "Bedlam ...

Happy New Year to all my esteemed readers, community members, visitors and guests. My apologies for the hiatus in articles over the past several weeks, which was due to the holiday season and various ...

You wouldn’t think to find one of the world’s most innovative asylums in Montrose, Scotland. Montrose is a small town between the cities of Aberdeen and Dundee. It became a significant trading center ...

(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 ...

Frustrated family members and others have been pushing for law changes in New York and other states that would allow the ...