Mental hospitals have played a role of paramount importance in the history of American psychiatry, dating back to the mid-18th century when the Quakers made the first organized attempt to care for the ...

Growing up as a boy in northern New Jersey, my first encounter with psychiatry was driving with my grandparents past a large, imposing hospital complex in Essex County called Overbrook. Built in a ...

The history of the state hospital includes many successes. In 1942, it pioneered a change of heart in how to best treat those with complex mental illness, adopting smaller patient units, individual ...