Abandoned asylums hold a strange fascination. Their empty halls, peeling paint, and broken windows tell stories of lives once ...

PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — When the American Psychiatric Association celebrated its 175th anniversary three years ago in San Francisco, it featured photographs of two Virginia mental institutions that ...

VOICES FROM THE ATHENS ASYLUM Thursday, October 30 at 9:00 pm The Athens Lunatic Asylum, now known as “The Ridges,” is a ...

(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 ...

Condemned as evil, mental hospitals closed, leading to fragmented system. Dec. 20, 2012— -- It took filmmaker Lucy Winer several decades to come to terms with having been locked up in a mental ...

"One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female." These were the damning words of an inspector who visited London's Bethlem ...

You wouldn’t think to find one of the world’s most innovative asylums in Montrose, Scotland. Montrose is a small town between the cities of Aberdeen and Dundee. It became a significant trading center ...