Trump’s cuts to Medicaid, housing assistance and mental health programs will undermine his goal of increasing involuntary commitment.

SAN BERNARDINO, CA -- From the outside, Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino is shrouded in mystery. But soon, the public will be able to peek inside the place once known as the Highland Insane ...

President Donald Trump has said he would be open to bringing back "insane asylums" to imprison people with "serious mental illness". In an interview with the Daily Caller published on Monday, the ...

The Bryce Hospital Museum in Tuscaloosa is now open to the public and highlights the history of mental health and civil rights in Alabama. Through a collaboration between the Alabama Department of ...

BARTONVILLE, Ill. | After more than three years of seeking approval for abatement funds, 32 days of cleanup and plenty of personal sacrifice, developer Richard Weiss has opened the Bowen Building of ...

Just a few headstones can be found at the Montana State Hospital cemetery, along with hundreds more postcard-size plaques, many bent or broken or succumbing to weeds. Through the years, weather has ...

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 ...