Gerald Bolton, 35, has been in and out of insane asylums for 19 years. His hang-up is automobiles, and it has brought him a lot of trouble. In fact, in the gentle word of a psychiatrist, he ...

The Trump administration is planning to dismiss asylum claims for potentially hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United ...

Similarly, most of the psychiatric hospitals constructed in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries—previously known as “mental asylums”—no longer exist.

The story of American deinstitutionalization has become familiar. In a long arc—from President Kennedy’s Community Mental Health Act of 1963 to the present—federal and state governments dismantled ...

In the Asylum’s era, mental illness was treated as an epidemic to be contained, with patients confined to remote, isolated facilities.The introduction of community-based care through John F ...