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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

From the outside, the Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland, which opened in Crownsville, Md., in 1911, looked like a farm, with patients harvesting tobacco, constructing gardens and working with ...

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