Bethlem Hospital, better known as Bedlam, became one of the most infamous mental asylums in British history. Patients were ...

Mental health care in America has a long, complex history. Author Hannah Thurman explores the history of mental health care ...

For decades, the health care system has operated under the cruel irony that the people dedicated to healing others were being punished for seeking healing themselves. Doctors, nurses, and health care ...

Content warning: This article contains mentions of sexual misconduct. Overall, the average mental hospital in this country has lackluster, prison-like conditions that are not at all conducive to the ...

Mental hospitals have played a role of paramount importance in the history of American psychiatry, dating back to the mid-18th century when the Quakers made the first organized attempt to care for the ...

THE 1926 CENSUS records indicate that over half of the 16,000 people recorded as being in institutions at the time were confined to mental hospitals. The Census data, which was published last weekend, ...