Benrubi Gallery in West Chelsea is currently hosting “Asylum,” an exhibition featuring photographs of abandoned psychiatric hospitals by Christopher Payne, the subject of his 2009 book Asylum ...

The long-deserted Medfield State Hospital makes for a haunting site, inspiring filmmakers for years with its dark, shadowy corners and long, and often sorrowful, history ...

Asylum Street became a dead end when the highway went in. It is now sandwiched between a short highway ramp and Foley Engines ...

Abandoned psychiatric hospital in New York. Human services emerged in their current forms early in the 19th century. (Photo: Shutterstock) The three intertwined crises we now face — the ...

Now "Asylum," a new film opening this weekend, is the story of an obsessive love affair that begins and ends in a British mental hospital for the criminally insane during the 1950s.

Insane Asylums. By the mid-1800's, mental health treatment was found primarily in large institutions called ... (2015, February). Asylum: Inside Central State Hospital, once the world's largest ...

Today’s mental health treatments bear little resemblance to the asylums of yore. Despite touting fantastic “cure” rates, mental hospitals raised concern from the start.

Their very names—Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane, Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Alabama Insane Hospital—conjure images of dark, dank psychiatric snake pits.

Insane Asylums. By the mid-1800's, mental health treatment was found primarily in large institutions called ... (2015, February). Asylum: Inside Central State Hospital, once the world's largest ...