In the mid- to late 1800s, insane asylums served as catch-all facilities for violent and difficult women. But were they really criminals? Or even crazy? Or just rebelling against the social ...

Medfield State Hospital, built in the 1880s and closed more than 20 years ago, is a little creepy but also pleasantly calm as ...

either act right or you end up at the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum. Founded in the early 1800s, the facility sat on Bull ...

He states only once in the book that the closing of state hospital facilities ... flourished in the 1800s after Dorothea Dix and others launched impassioned reform movements decrying the intolerable ...

Six Reasons for Asylum Admission" art exhibit in the Baber Room Gallery in the Central Michigan University Library, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. The exhibit follows why women were commonly admitted into ...

The University of Sheffield have released a new podcast to coincide with World Mental Health Day (10 October 2024) that ...