On May 6, 1946, Life magazine published "Bedlam 1946," an exposé of two ... stigma of court commitment and incarceration in an "insane asylum." The first of these was opened last November ...

St Patrick's the oldest psychiatric hospital in the state celebrates its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.

He was sent to the city’s ‘madhouse’, Darien House — the notorious Edinburgh Bedlam. This was little ... the Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum, which began construction in 1807.