These real-life decaying asylums will give you the shivers ... Cotton hada very progressive attitude toward care for his patients. He developed a dangerous theory about mental illness, one ...

There are tons of great movies about psychiatric asylums, but some are a step ... This 2010 film falls squarely into the “ward patient sees something creepy, but no one believes her” genre.

Mental health charities have criticised a series of ghost tours around former mental asylums across Britain ... of us with a mental illness might be ‘scary’,” said Ms Nightingale.

Images show a "creepy" abandoned Irish psychiatric hospital ... and was considered one of the earliest of the Irish district asylums, hailing a new progressive role in mental health for Ireland ...

While the words "insane asylum" conjure up images of dark, scary places ... Those compounds were also self-sufficient; patients produced their own food and even generated their own electricity.

The spiral staircase at the heart of the building has been restored, and while it is far less creepy ... a patient in a box but with his head sticking out. Some residents of old lunatic asylums ...

For many, the phrase “psychiatric asylum” conjures up haunting and disturbing images: lobotomy procedures, drugged and restrained patients, the creepy ... of psychiatric asylums that are ...

With names such as West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, it doesn’t take much to imagine of the suffering within Victorian psychiatric hospitals. But a new book showing the derelict interiors of ...

The tagline for Halloween Horror Nights 26 is "You won't stand a chance," a play off of the creepy ... the spinning wall art and screaming insane asylum patients, it was all I could do not ...

Getting into the Halloween spirit, Scouting NY's Nick Carr was up at Columbia University and decided to delve into the history of the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, New York's first mental hospital ...

The spiral staircase at the heart of the building has been restored, and while it is far less creepy ... a patient in a box but with his head sticking out. Some residents of old lunatic asylums ...