You might be suprised by the reasons for admission to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum from 1864-1889. Exposure and quackery, anyone?
We look at the history of lunatic asylums, and how to trace records of your ancestors who were held in them
The Redwood Asylum is a novel by L. A. Detwiler. Jessica starts a new job that is haunted and the ghosts seem to attach themselves to her.
Reasons for Admittance to a Victorian Asylum ( in case you missed it yesterday). I'm in.
An asylum is a psychiatric hospital where people with serious psychiatric illnesses are being treated, but some just got way so insane, it's creepy. Sure, insane asylums give us the creeps just by looking at their photographs, but wait til you hear the chilling true stories behind these hospitals. Here, we've selected the 10 creepiest and most
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POWERFUL portraits capture what patients looked like in Britain’s most notorious mental asylum. Victorian photographer Henry Hering is the man behind the eye-opening snaps, which put a face to some…
I’ve been shooting images of abandoned Victorian and Edwardian lunatic asylums and mental hospitals ever since I was first asked to shoot one single image of the outside of one as an illustration for a book, back in 2008.
What's wrong with haunted asylums, and why should writers care?
Los Mejores Cómics recibe a Batman Asilo Arkham, la obra con la que Grant Morrison inmortalizo el icónico manicominio.En la siguiente reseña os hablamos de un cómic
Standout character: An ageing beauty queen obsessed with the idea of youth and immortalityPlot: Have you seen Toddlers And Tiaras? That shit is horrifying. Picture that, but with adults. Living Dolls would see an array of fierce beauty queens battle it out for the crown, taking down who ever and what ever gets in their way. It would have the same amount of sassiness as Coven but with more make-up, primped hair and cut-throat scenes.
POWERFUL portraits capture what patients looked like in Britain’s most notorious mental asylum. Victorian photographer Henry Hering is the man behind the eye-opening snaps, which put a face to some…
“The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.” ~ G…
During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the director, “What is the criterion that defines a patient to be institutionalized?”“Well…” said the director, “we fill up a bathtub, an.. #funny, #joke, #humor
From its days as the SC Lunatic Asylum to its modern, luxury redevelopment plans, the Bull Street campus has a storied history many in South Carolina know about — do you?
Occasionally, history comes back and gives me a slap in the face. The slap in this instance came in the form of an article on innovation that appeared in the New York Times recently. It recounts th…
Fifty years ago, psychiatrist David Rosenhan went undercover in a psychiatric hospital to expose its dark side. But his shocking findings aren't what they seem, reveals Susannah Cahalan
Baby doll/wasp nest hybrid? Ominous...
HMT Empire Windrush docked in Essex in 1948, carrying passengers from the Caribbean to the UK.
The biography of a mercurial medicine.
