On May 6, 1946, Life magazine published "Bedlam 1946," an exposé of two state ... undermanned mental "hospital" known as the "Dungeon," one can still read, after nine years, the five-word ...

themselves or others. In the nineteenth century, objects like these became a symbol of the "non-restraint" movement in British psychiatry. Bethlem superintendent W. Charles Hood (1824 - 70 ...

Influenced by his time as governor at the infamous Bedlam asylum in London, the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral wanted to see an independent care facility where all profits would be returned to its ...