(CNN) — 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A map dated 1886 shows the area of Summer, East Central and Asylum streets in Worcester. The area, later divided by the Worcester ...

Insane asylums traditionally evoke mental images of stark white hospital rooms, dank hallways, and patients either aimlessly wandering in vegetative states or wildly acting out like Jack Nicholson in ...

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 ...

When I moved to Washington, D.C., in 1962, St. Elizabeths Hospital was notorious — a rundown federal facility for the treatment of people with mental illness that was overcrowded and understaffed.

You wouldn’t think to find one of the world’s most innovative asylums in Montrose, Scotland. Montrose is a small town between the cities of Aberdeen and Dundee. It became a significant trading center ...