Remember Donald Trump waxing on his good friend Hannibal Lecter on the campaign trail? Made you think he was the one who needed to be in the insane asylum. Now Trump wants to reopen actual insane ...

Graylingwell Hospital opened in 1897, and Ms Millard said the hospital's first Med Supt, Dr Harold Kidd, had a "pioneering vision". "Dr Kidd wanted the hospital to treat people in a humanistic way, ...

(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 ...

Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women." Send an email to Virginia. President Donald Trump says he is open to the ...

One of the most popular abandoned asylums to visit in the United States—also known as the Weston State Hospital and, ominously, the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane—the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic ...

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 ...

Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital is a richly endowed chronicle of what was our most colorful, and possibly best, asylum, Massachusetts' McLean Hospital. Author ...