(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 ...

Insane asylums traditionally evoke mental images of stark white hospital rooms, dank hallways, and patients either aimlessly wandering in vegetative states or wildly acting out like Jack Nicholson in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Summer Street branch of Worcester State Hospital, built in 1833 and the oldest state mental hospital in Massachusetts, seen in ...

"You know, I always say about a lot of things, that I don't know, so I'm open to it," shares Ricci. "You know, just in case. I've had a few things that were either manifestations of my anxiety or were ...

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 ...

At the end of the 19th century, a government institution known as the Canton Indian Asylum was created to treat Native ...