A documentary on Old Main, the Greek revival building originally known as the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica in West Utica, is now showing on Amazon, Apple TV and Google Play/You Tube for ...

PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — When the American Psychiatric Association celebrated its 175th anniversary three years ago in San Francisco, it featured photographs of two Virginia mental institutions that ...

According to a 2025 report by Statista, almost 10% of college students receiving mental health care were hospitalized from 2023 to 2024. Hospitalizations are, sometimes, a necessary component of ...

In popular culture, the history of mental healthcare is a dismal affair, filled with dark cells, chains, and torture. Psychiatrists are often evil geniuses or mad scientists, and mental hospitals are ...

Growing up as a boy in northern New Jersey, my first encounter with psychiatry was driving with my grandparents past a large, imposing hospital complex in Essex County called Overbrook. Built in a ...