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 ...
Graylingwell Hospital opened in 1897, and Ms Millard said the hospital's first Med Supt, Dr Harold Kidd, had a "pioneering ...
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 ...
“The stigma and fear of mental illness began to go hand in hand with the stigma and fear of the institution.” Such narratives included books such as the 1868 “ The prisoners’ hidden life; or, Insane ...