Insane patients in a French asylum. Picture: Wellcome Collection According to historian Nancy Tomes, author of The Art of Asylum-Keeping, doctors merely confirmed a diagnosis of insanity already ...

The US has a rich history of deeply flawed asylums that have set the scene for countless real-life American ... intended to morally rehabilitate insane patients. This "moral management" included ...

Desolate lives and deaths were often the fate of people with mental illnesses %u2014 real or supposed ... to the former Outagamie County Asylum for the Chronic Insane are buried.

Hiawatha Insane Asylum was nation%27s only such institution ... eventually led her to Canton and the tragic tale of asylum patient Tom Floodwood. Today at the golf course, the committee sees ...

Macy Villa catered to the asylum’s wealthiest patients ... Insane Asylum exemplifies how mental health facilities struggled, and continue to struggle, in New York’s competitive real estate ...

The Mary Belle Sanatorium is a former sanatorium built after World War II, built to isolate tuberculosis patients ... In 1967 a young girl enters the asylum suffering from Tuberculosis and ...

Today's exploration takes us to a magnificent Abandoned Asylum, built in 1839 to help the mentally ill in the UK. Open to all ...

In the beginning, it was the Napa Insane Asylum ... at the Stockton Asylum, the first state hospital. Construction started in 1872, and the first two patients, from San Francisco, were admitted ...

The asylum opened in ... in the moral treatment of the insane. He believed in kindness, care, exercise, good nutrition and a bed to sleep in. "He would feed the patients up, they would learn ...

Selina Baiss, from Shepton Mallet, was said to be "demented, incoherent and noisy" and had been an asylum patient for 38 years ... in the moral treatment of the insane. He believed in kindness ...