The new state hospital has space for nearly 40 additional beds, and has begun a study to determine what types of patients ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To his co-workers at a Los Angeles aerospace plant, Herbert Hill seemed odder and odder. The angry exmarine, a purchasing expediter, refused to speak, neglected his work, shoved his chair at ...

Mental hospitals proliferated in the 1800s in response to horrific conditions in county poorhouses that warehoused the mentally ill. ... such as chlorpromazine in the 1950s.

When my husband was in the hospital for nine days in 2021, no one offered me a casserole. I was taking care of my 12-year-old and trying to manage my husband's care over the phone, since COVID-19 ...