not an insane asylum, she wrote. All related horrible stories of neglect and heartless cruelty. Mrs. Cotter, “a pretty, delicate woman,” told Bly that, “for crying, the nurses beat me with a ...

The insane physician shines in the 1920 ... for whom it was better to die under a pillow than live under Nurse Ratched, had been sent to the asylum from prison, thinking it would be just as ...

Richard T. Harrison, an attendant in the New-York City Asylum for the Insane, on Ward's Island, was attacked by William Scott, a colored patient, early Sunday morning, and so badly beaten on the ...

CHICAGO, April 29.--Three attendants at the Cook County Insane Asylum were to-day arrested on warrants based upon indictments found by the Grand Jury charging them with the murder of Robert Burns, ...

An insane mute will win the Pulitzer Prize ... Often there's a malevolent mental health worker--a guard, a nurse, a doctor. In "Asylum," there is a scheming psychiatrist who manipulates the ...

I have seen the nurses twist patients’ arms behind their ... histories of some of the female patients of the West Riding Lunatic Asylum in the late 1800s were featured. It was a fascinating ...

as part of its program “to spotlight irreplaceable historic, architectural, cultural and archeological resources in New Jersey that are in imminent danger of being lost,” according to the ...