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 ...

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 ...

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

As the calendar makes the inevitable shift into a new year, as many as 31% of Americans said they had planned to welcome 2026 with New Year’s resolutions, with the most popular promises to exercise ...

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 ...