“By the 1800s, mental illness had become recognized as a disease … and anything that is a disease was believed to be curable,” said Jennifer Bazar, the assistant director of the National Museum of ...

During the late 1800s, mental health care was a dark and often terrifying world hidden behind the walls of asylums. Few dared to question what went on inside, but Nellie Bly, a courageous journalist, ...