To understand the rise and fall of county mental health systems, it is necessary to understand the history of the asylum and ...

Into the Shadows The Horrors of Historic Mental Asylums Posted: March 3, 2025 | Last updated: March 3, 2025 Delve into the chilling history of historic mental asylums, where dark nightmares became ...

On Jan. 9, 1901, The Argus published an unattributed article entitled “Report of Professor Atwater’s Food Investigations” to ...

Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz's book, The Myth of Mental Illness, argues that there is no such disease as schizophrenia. Sociologist Erving Goffman's book, Asylums, also comes out. Another critic of ...

In the 19th and early 20th century, mental asylums were created as the main form of care for patients with severe mental illness. Dane County originally had a state psychiatric institution ...