Pennhurst opened its doors as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic, which is possibly the most insensitive name in the history of institutional names, and ...

The Wild West is often remembered for gunfighters, outlaws, and lawless frontier towns. But hidden behind that violent ...

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

In an upcoming RTÉ documentary called 'All That Remains', Breslin (commonly known as Bressie) will return to his native Mullingar to work alongside the families of the forgotten to honour more than ...

In the late 1800s, asylums functioned largely out of public view. Doctors alone could decide who was committed, and once inside, patients had almost no way to argue their case or secure release.

President Donald Trump veered off at his bombshell press conference into a digression on “insane asylums” that included bragging about how his mom thought he could go pro based on his Little League ...

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 ...

As the calendar makes the inevitable shift into a new year, as many as 31% of Americans said they had planned to welcome 2026 with New Year’s resolutions, with the most popular promises to exercise ...