Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the Victorian era, mental asylums had a reputation of treating patients with inhumane methods. However, a West Sussex ...

The treatment of mental illness has an unsavory history, and the cruelty inflicted upon the mentally ill in asylums throughout western history has been well-documented. However, in the 1700s and 1800s ...

“By the 1800s, mental illness had become recognized as a disease … and anything that is a disease was believed to be curable,” said Jennifer Bazar, the assistant director of the National Museum of ...

During the late 1800s, mental health care was a dark and often terrifying world hidden behind the walls of asylums. Few dared to question what went on inside, but Nellie Bly, a courageous journalist, ...