Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the Victorian era, mental asylums had a reputation of treating patients with inhumane methods. However, a West Sussex ...

Philadelphia psychiatrist Tom Kirkbride, who grew up on a Lower Makefield farm in the 1800s, moved treatment of people ...

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 treatment of mental illness has an unsavory history, and the cruelty inflicted upon the mentally ill in asylums throughout western history has been well-documented. However, in the 1700s and 1800s ...