The early days included strange devices, diagnoses in a system where the Utah State Hospital was the only treatment option ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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 ...