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

Shame and fear were the emotions most associated with the great grey walls of the county asylums. A shame that touched so ...

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

This overlooked 1999 film isn't technically a horror film, but it's probably the scariest movie Martin Scorsese has ever made ...

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

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.

The Harris campaign and most of Trump’s critics have ignored this for the same reason most of Trump’s offenses have been ...

Decades ago, before the movement known as deinstitutionalization, adults with mental health needs were housed in asylums that had ... care needed for many of the patients sent to Riverview and ...

New asylums would face litigious, even extralegal, resistance by patients and activists opposed to the type of long-term involuntary holds that they helped end last century. At the very least ...

Christina Farrell, a psychologist at Balanced Living Psychology told Yahoo Lifestyle that those selling the costume "had not ...

FOR decades, Sarah Smith suffered with depression. But now, due to a futuristic-looking headset that zapped electronic pulses ...