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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 ...

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 ...

This year, I taught a brand-new class on the history of the psychiatric asylum with my colleague, Dr Hannah Proctor. "Bedlam and Beyond: The Controversial History of the Asylum" is a seminar-based ...

A documentary on Old Main, the Greek revival building originally known as the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica in West Utica, is now showing on Amazon, Apple TV and Google Play/You Tube for ...