Back in the 1950s, America locked up too many people in psychiatric hospitals with shocking and deplorable conditions. We tried to correct for that, with an eye toward providing services in the ...

Like most psychiatric hospitals of the era, the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was intended to provide high-quality ...

This psychiatric hospital shuttered in 1973. ... and performed a number of lobotomies in 1949 and 1950. But conventions surrounding mental health care began changing in the 1950s and 1960s, ...

Momentum picked up in the 1950s and ’60s as new drugs were released to treat mental illness and figures such as French philosopher Michel Foucault and novelist Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over ...

Images show a "creepy" abandoned Irish psychiatric hospital that opened in the 1830s which still has medicine rooms and even an "old coffin" in the basement. Urban explorer Jordan L. took photos ...

According to OMH, there are fewer than 5,000 people residing in its psychiatric centers, compared with roughly 93,000 during the 1950s. Advertisement Article continues below this ad ...

A haunting photograph seemingly showing several women climbing the walls of a room in a dilapidated building is frequently circulated with the claim that it depicts an (abandoned) "Russian mental ...

Nationwide, states closed 62 psychiatric hospitals between 1997 and 2015 and since the 1950s, there has been a 91% decrease in state beds, according to the National Association of State Mental ...