Psychiatry

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

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

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

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

A pilgrimage site where people ask Saint Dymphna to watch over those who are not of sound mind.