"They were called lunatics and imbeciles, idiots. The terms dementia or schizophrenia weren't known. Psychiatry was an infant science" In a Somerset town a small group of volunteers are slowly and ...

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 ...

BURIED AT THE SITE. IT’S CALLED THE ASYLUM HILL PROJECT. BUT CONSTRUCTION UNCOVERED HUMAN REMAINS AND GRAVES IN 2012. NOW, ARCHEOLOGICAL STUDIES PREDICT THERE COULD BE UP TO 7000 PEOPLE BURIED ON ...

Ex-mental health commissioner King Davis, PhD, left, leads the Friends of Central State group, Dr. Ronald O. Forbes serves as the vice chairman, pose for a photo in Dinwiddie, Va., Monday, Sept. 14, ...

Tucked away on the northeast side of University of Mississippi Medical Center's campus in Jackson is a patch of trees which has been left untouched — and for the most part forgotten — for the better ...

CROWNSVILLE, Md. — “I get teary-eyed every time they do this,” Janice Hayes-Williams, an Annapolis historian, said. On a bright, cold morning in January, cadaver dogs, specially trained to find human ...

A growing number of people seeking asylum in Australia are missing out on lifesaving preventative health care due to being ineligible for Medicare, a group of Sydney doctors and nurses say.

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 ...