"They were called lunatics and imbeciles, idiots. The terms dementia or schizophrenia weren't known. Psychiatry was an infant science" In a Somerset town a small group of volunteers are slowly and ...

Insane asylums traditionally evoke mental images of stark white hospital rooms, dank hallways, and patients either aimlessly wandering in vegetative states or wildly acting out like Jack Nicholson in ...

UMMC says there could be as many as 7000 burial sites of patients at the Mississippi Asylum for the Insane, which from 1855 to 1935 stood on what's now UMMC campus. If you purchase a product or ...

Researching the history of the asylum can be a case of feast and famine, often at the same time. Some asylums left, if not mountains of records, then at least large hills. I mean that literally. An ...

The UB Art Galleries is calling on the Buffalo community to help preserve the stories of women who were once patients at the former Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, now the site of the historic ...