The treatment of mental illness has an unsavory history, and the cruelty inflicted upon the mentally ill in asylums throughout western history has been well-documented. However, in the 1700s and 1800s ...

Within three years, brick by inexpensive brick, the State Lunatic Asylum in Worcester was built on land that is now home to ...

As the world learned how to deal with mental illnesses in the late 19th century, hospitals were established where those with ...

(CNN) — Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a ...

Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital is a richly endowed chronicle of what was our most colorful, and possibly best, asylum, Massachusetts' McLean Hospital. Author ...

During a fit of insomnia some years back, I was flipping through the channels and happened upon a ghost hunting show on cable TV. In this episode, the host was explaining that his team would be ...

One of the most popular abandoned asylums to visit in the United States—also known as the Weston State Hospital and, ominously, the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane—the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic ...