The major setting in this book is an asylum, a mental institution. And I have to admit, I had no idea that there were even such things in 1874 when you started looking into doing this book.

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.

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 The Gory Origins of ...

Maraquita' explores one woman's false incarceration in an Australian mental hospital, as remembered by her son Tony. Maraquita spent 22 years of her life in Sunbury Asylum on a diagnosis that was ...

Black History Month Event: ‘Central Lunatic Asylum for Colored ... patients. This documentary film illuminates the history of the hospital, as well as the history of mental health treatment ...