The wife of a man who escaped from a Gardner hospital where he was being held for a mental health evaluation is demanding ...
Abandoned asylums hold a strange fascination. Their empty halls, peeling paint, and broken windows tell stories of lives once ...
PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — When the American Psychiatric Association celebrated its 175th anniversary three years ago in San Francisco, it featured photographs of two Virginia mental institutions that ...
A fenced-in parcel of dirt and grass in Phoenix is the final resting place of many patients from the former Insane Asylum of ...
In late 2022, Erin, a 43-year-old from Pennsylvania, agreed to spend six weeks in a psychiatric ward, getting intensive treatment for an illness she knew she didn’t have. That decision was a last ...
An examination room sits empty behind a curtained window, through which staff can monitor patients who may be having a mental health emergency on Dec. 9, 2019. CATHY WURZER: We're going to turn now to ...