Russian filmmaker and Vladimir Putin propagandist Karen Shakhnazarov thinks Donald Trump sounds a lot like the people he’s ...

In the mid- to late 1800s, insane asylums served as catch-all facilities for violent and difficult women. But were they really criminals? Or even crazy? Or just rebelling against the social ...

Decades of failed mental health policies have placed law enforcement on the front line of mental illness crisis response and turned jails and prisons into the new asylums. Deinstitutionalization, ...

Muslim Arabs, who establish asylums as early as the 8th century, carry on the quasi-scientific approach of the Greeks. U.S. reformer Dorothea Dix observes that mentally ill people in Massachusetts ...