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 ...
Tourism has taken quite a hit these past 12 months. Economists are reckoning with the fallout. But tourism won’t die. Nor will the tourism of death. Asylums have long been locales for “dark tourism.” ...
(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 ...
It seems fitting that this history of mental health ends with Oregon’s attempt to grapple with the needs of children and ...
President Donald Trump has said he would be open to bringing back "insane asylums" to imprison people with "serious mental illness". In an interview with the Daily Caller published on Monday, the ...