This year, I taught a brand-new class on the history of the psychiatric asylum with my colleague, Dr Hannah Proctor. "Bedlam and Beyond: The Controversial History of the Asylum" is a seminar-based ...

Between 1848 and 1890, dozens of grand mental asylums were built around the United States under the Kirkbride Plan, designed by Thomas Story Kirkbride. Postcard of the “State Insane Asylum” in Morris ...

In the harsh realities of the Old West, Oregon's first insane asylum offered a stark contrast to the lawless brutality surrounding it. Dating back to the 1800s, this institution aimed to provide ...

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Over its 138-year existence, political correctness has played a huge role in the name of that large institution on the south side of the city of Napa. In the beginning, it was the Napa Insane Asylum, ...