announced the closure of Britain's Victorian mental hospitals but it was not until 1986 that the first asylum was actually closed. North Wales Hospital shut in 1995. When it became clear the ...

In 1945, Maraquita Sargeant was admitted to a mental institution in Australia against her will and remained their for 22 years - produced by Matt Cleaves and George Clipp Explore Subscribe ...

At its peak, the hospital ... asylums faded from view, but prisons and jails increasingly became de facto treatment facilities for those within its populations grappling with mental illness.

Muslim Arabs, who establish asylums as early as the 8th century ... dehumanizing experience in a Connecticut mental institution and calling for the reform of mental health care in America.