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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Central State 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 nation's first state mental hospital in 1773.

"One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female." These were the damning words of an inspector who visited London's Bethlem ...

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.