The 19th century goldfish bowl is part of a room named after that feeling of intense sadness – melancholia. Decorated with ...

Data shows that migrants at some detention centers in the Houston area are being held, on average, more than twice as long ...

c/o Soren Stokes c/o Soren Stokes At the turn of the twentieth century, a new chapter in mental healthcare emerged from the margins of nutritional science. In an age of expanding research and ...

Venee fled rape and modern slavery, coming to the UK from Africa to seek asylum. She has just learned that her asylum case has been refused, with a decision made on the basis of a statement she wrote ...

Unlike many asylums left to decay—such as the abandoned Kings Park Psychiatric Center on Long Island —the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum suffered a different fate.

Asylum in the Age of Trump In 2023, 6.8 million people sought asylum globally, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees—a staggering 28 percent increase from the prior year.

The War of 1812 veteran moved to Neshoba County in 1842, was ruled “insane” in the 1850s and is believed to have died at the asylum between 1857 and 1859.

Usually the mention of an old, closed-down insane asylum brings to mind images of inhumanely treated patients, ghosts and bad TV. When it comes to the Hastings State Hospital, however, the Dakota ...

She died alone in an asylum. Her story — and the modern-day story of Mother’s Day — began, of course, with her own mother. Here’s how it all got started.

In Antonia Hylton’s book, "Madness," the NBC News correspondent shares the story of a mental health facility in Maryland that once housed up to 2,700 Black patients.