The late Stephen “Wolf” Cummings was committed to a psychiatric institution known as the Hawthorne Center outside of Detroit before he even hit his teenage years. It was an anguished period of his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A documentary on Old Main, the Greek revival building originally known as the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica in West Utica ...

Breslin embarks on an emotional journey in All That Remains, airing this Wednesday, March 11, on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player.

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 group of ...

The Eloise Asylum in Westland was once a poorhouse, a psychiatric facility and a general hospital that housed thousands of patients. At its peak, Eloise was a self-sufficient community spanning 900 ...

“The stigma and fear of mental illness began to go hand in hand with the stigma and fear of the institution.” Such narratives included books such as the 1868 “ The prisoners’ hidden life; or, Insane ...