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Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as Bedlam, is an English psychiatric hospital that once was notorious for its atrocious treatment of mentally ill patients. Reflecting the attitude of the era, ...

Two motion pictures played a role in the descent into disrepute and the final demise of state mental hospitals. The first was “Titicut Follies,” a 1967 documentary about inmates in the Bridgewater ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Archaeologists have unearthed hundreds of skeletons at a 16th Century burial ground in the heart of the city that once served London's most notorious psychiatric hospital, the ...

Given such institutions' accustomed reticence to television scrutiny, a lot of doors were suddenly being thrown open. The theme of Bedlam’s opening episode was “Anxiety”, a subject all of us grapple ...

So, a new batch of thousands of mentally ill Arizonans are going to lose most, if not all of their current benefits (counseling, transportation, etc.), ostensibly because of the state’s ongoing fiscal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director Kenneth Paul Rosenberg with Patrisse Cullors, cofounder of Black Lives Matter, from the documentary "Bedlam," ...

Bedlam’s theatre of the absurd continued until the end of public visits in 1770. More liberal-minded governors could also count on more civilised public attitudes to the mentally ill. Charitable ...