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Podcast: Freud Museum London

Lie back on what might be the world's most famous psychoanalytic couch.
The Podcast Team February 1, 2023
Beechworth, Australia

Beechworth Asylum

This former psychiatric hospital was once one of the largest in Australia.
The Weston State Hospital, once (and again) known as the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
abandoned

A Cultural Historian Explores an Old Mental Hospital, and Why They Scare Us

They are haunted, but not by ghosts.
Troy Rondinone October 31, 2019
Wanderlust seems desirable today, but it was once considered a disease.
hospitals

When Doctors Thought ‘Wanderlust’ Was a Psychological Condition

For decades, "pathological tourists" ended up in asylums or worse.
Sabrina Imbler April 15, 2019
The primary tunnel.
Traverse City, Michigan

Tunnels of Traverse City State Hospital

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.
Z Ward.
Glenside, Australia

Z Ward

A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.
A hydrotherapy tub in St. Albans Sanatorium.
Radford, Virginia

St. Albans Sanatorium

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.
Images of the Unconscious Museum.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Images of the Unconscious Museum

An overlooked collection of over 350,000 artistic works created by psychiatric patients using art therapy.
Permanently Closed
The abandoned London Psychiatric Hospital.
London, Ontario

London Psychiatric Hospital

Clusters of abandoned buildings hint at the facility's 144-year history with psychiatric health.
Detail from Bronzino's murals in the Basilica di Santa Croce.
art

How Great Art Can Make You a Little Crazy

Braving the long lines to see the last Leonardo in private hands.
Natasha Frost November 14, 2017
An abandoned building once used by the Säter psychiatric hospital.
Säter, Sweden

Säter Museum of Mental Health

A museum dedicated to the history of psychiatric treatment featuring a gallery of art made by patients.
haunted

The Complex Ethics of a Haunted House Starring Psychiatric Patients

A Halloween attraction at a Utah mental-health hospital perpetuated stigmas but benefited residents.
Jake Smith October 16, 2017
A wheelchair in the abandoned building
Glen Gardner, New Jersey

Abandoned Hagedorn Psychiatric Hospital

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.
Plaza Güemes in Buenos Aires, sometimes known as Plaza Freud or Guadalupe.
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Villa Freud

A pocket of Buenos Aires with an unusually high concentration of psychotherapists.
Milledgeville, Georgia

Central State Hospital

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
Freud's psychoanalytic couch.
London, England

Freud Museum London

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.
Permanently Closed
DeJarnette Sanitarium.
Staunton, Virginia

Abandoned DeJarnette Sanitarium

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.
Permanently Closed
Limbiate, Italy

Mombello Psychiatric Hospital

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.