On May 6, 1946, Life magazine published "Bedlam 1946," an exposé of two state ... undermanned mental "hospital" known as the "Dungeon," one can still read, after nine years, the five-word ...

themselves or others. In the nineteenth century, objects like these became a symbol of the "non-restraint" movement in British psychiatry. Bethlem superintendent W. Charles Hood (1824 - 70 ...

Folger Theatre begins its 2018/19 season with Macbeth, Shakespeare's murderous tragedy seen anew and here, set in London's famous Bedlam asylum for a groundbreaking production integrating period ...