Two former workers at an infamous Kent mental asylum have shared eye-opening tales of what life was like behind the ...

To understand the rise and fall of county mental health systems, it is necessary to understand the history of the asylum and of deinstitutionalization.

“You had fit, healthy men lying in bed by 7pm even on a beautiful summer ... She was admitted to the Connaught District Lunatic Asylum, later renamed St Brigid’s psychiatric hospital, in ...

Everybody dies pretty early on in "Until Dawn." That's not a spoiler, that's the premise of this roller coaster horror tale, in which a group of friends tries to survive a night in a house full of ...

As a teenager, Flaubert paid visits to the morgue; when he was only six or seven, an uncle gave him a tour of the local insane asylum. Given this upbringing, the adult Flaubert’s jaundiced view of ...

Dane County originally had a state psychiatric institution, which opened in the 1800s as the Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane, and then later the Mendota State Hospital and the Mendota Mental ...

There’s something both fascinating and terrifying about standing in the shadow of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia – a massive stone fortress where the line between history ...

For West Virginia residents, the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum represents an important piece of local history. Many families ...

Ashley Potter, manager of front-line services for the charity, said more than 20 per cent of people who seek help from the Ottawa Mission are asylum seekers ... our numbers show that need for shelter ...