A few hours north of Seattle, Washington, there's a kind of ghost town dotted with decaying barns and milking sheds, an old cemetery, and once-stately buildings that housed thousands. It was never an ...

Are institutions really that bad? If the history of people with disabilities is any indication, the answer is no. As someone who's been studying the history of mental hospitals for well over two ...

Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin By Norah Vincent Viking; 304 pages The Gist: In 1887, New York World reporter Nellie Bly went undercover in a New York City mental asylum.

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 ...

For decades, the health care system has operated under the cruel irony that the people dedicated to healing others were being punished for seeking healing themselves. Doctors, nurses, and health care ...

At a recent rally, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy stood on an Ohio gubernatorial platform that includes reopening mental institutions. Ramaswamy has said as much before, arguing as he campaigned for ...

There’s a stream that cuts across the grounds of Central Louisiana State Hospital, traversing its rolling hills dotted with age-old oak trees. To the right of its entrance, bleachers and a fence, ...