Employees at North Alabama Shoals Hospital are celebrating their very first graduate from the psychiatric residency program.

The judge wrote that neither the Constitution nor federal immigration law gave the president the authority to “adopt an ...

Mental illness is by no means a recent phenomenon in human civilization. ... The Dark History Of America's First Mental Asylum. Posted: August 19, 2024 | Last updated: August 19, 2024.

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

May 23, 2023. The city of Wenzhou in southeastern China is home to the country’s largest privately owned mental health hospital group, the Wenzhou Kangning Hospital Co, Ltd.

For many years, psychiatrists filled leadership roles in mental health organizations. This was true in long term inpatient facilities and in the first community mental health centers.

NBC journalist Antonia Hylton spent more than a decade piecing together the history of Maryland's first segregated asylum, where Black patients were forced into manual labor. Her new book is Madness.

The hospital was founded in Richmond in 1870 as the world’s first mental institution for Black people in a state that had also established the first state mental hospital in the nation at ...

It was supposed to be a big party under a tent with two choirs to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the first mental hospital in the United States for Blacks, most of them just ...

Funds will go to treating Tarrant County residents too mentally ill to stand trial and will help reduce the Texas state ...

Stigma and misinformation about who goes into psychiatric care, and how they should be treated, took hold of the public consciousness long before the state’s first mental health hospital ...