Hervey Cleckley wanted to treat the most overlooked psychiatric patients. Instead his work was used to demonize them.

The Rubies Insane Asylum costume was removed after the concerns were raised by national mental health advocacy organisation ...

Aradale Lunatic Asylum is allegedly the most haunted site in Australia – a location renowned for cruelty and misery. In this ...

In her LinkedIn post, Rachel shared her own photo alongside pictures of the Halloween costume and wrote, "Hey Spotlight Reta ...

Dare to roam Waikiki Trolley’s new Halloween experience Trial of Fears where guests who enter Dr. Delirio’s Insane Asylum can ...

(Radio-Canada) A disease that is more commonly associated with the trenches of the First World War, and can sometimes be found in refugee camps, has been detected in several patients in Alberta ...

was the setting of Canadian-American sociologist Dr Erving Goffman’s classic book Asylums, in which he analysed how the dehumanisation of patients unfolded in an oppressive and austere environment.

A surgeon is removing brain tumours "the size of large apples" through patients' eyebrows, in what is believed to be a world first. Consultant neurosurgeon Anastasios Giamouriadis, based in ...

But go back to the 18th century, and it was a drastically different picture. Back then, mental health patients were often confined in overcrowded asylums, and subjected to brutal treatments like ...

At least 600 patients along with their companions, and staff members, are trapped at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya as the Israeli military besieges the medical facility, the Palestinian ...

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Jackson Women’s Health Supreme Court decision are forced to balance the needs of their pregnant patients against the risk that the providers could be prosecuted for treating these patients.