The received medical wisdom of the 19th century was that assertive, ambitious women were unnatural, and therefore sick.

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 ...

(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 ...

One of the most popular abandoned asylums to visit in the United States—also known as the Weston State Hospital and, ominously, the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane—the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic ...

The design of the buildings as well as the restorative grounds were intended to complement the innovations in psychiatric care practiced at this facility. This design was representative of what was ...

Once considered a taboo subject, the history of women institutionalized at the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane took center stage in November as community members gathered at UB’s Anderson Gallery ...