Two former workers at an infamous Kent mental asylum have shared eye-opening tales of what life was like behind the ...

Dr Charles Hetherington, Resident Medical Superintendent 1877-1919, saw twice weekly in the dining room “mirth and laughter, ...

Catherine Coffey O’Brien (54) will “never know what lives” her six uncles and mother might have led had they been spared what she describes as “incarceration” in St Finan’s psychiatric ...

By then, on what seems like a whim, he had agreed to become the first director for the New England Asylum for the Blind ... that masturbation was a cause of mental disability.) ...

James likely suffered from mental illness; he was pardoned and sent to a “lunatic asylum” in April 1876 ... such as helping cancer patients who pray to her, or saving immigrants from deportation.

The South Rift region is set to benefit from a second teaching and referral hospital after the Cabinet approved the ...

The former asylum in Lincoln abolished the use of mechanical restraint in 1837, according to Prof Nigel Horner Asylums often used harsh and restrictive methods to manage patients, including ...

This is the Asylum on Blackwell's Island, under the care of Dr. R. L. PARSONS. The report shows that, during the year 1867, he had to treat 1,580 patients, of whom 941 were women and 639 men.