Prior to straight jackets and before medications were invented to treat the mentally ill, many patients would be chained to walls or...

A person (the mental patient) was placed in a “rotational chair,” often with a box around their head or body to hinder or obstruct their...

Hydrotherapy (aka "Water Cure") Hydrotherapy involved wrapping patients, mummy-style, in water-soaked sheets. towels, or blankets. This...

Often barbaric and inhumane, doctors of the time thought these treatments would not only help insane patients but possibly cure them of...

Does anything about this tombstone look unusual? I hope that you have noticed that this tombstone marks the grave of asylum patient...

This list purportedly documents the myriad reasons or symptoms behind patients' being admitted to insane asylums back in the 1800s....

The Middle Ages: In the Middle Ages, mental illness was regarded as demonic possession. For centuries, the mentally ill were often...