It would be almost 80 years before the introduction of even rudimentary mental health treatments. Lobotomy described as 'easier than curing a toothache' Are asylum suicides an unfolding national ...

Refugees with preexisting mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and psychosis, often face greater challenges when trying to navigate asylum systems. In many refugee ...

Upon a growing understanding of mental health followed by health care reforms, asylums around the world shuttered their doors. While many have been repurposed, many others were abandoned ...

A Palestinian man, who claims he fled the war in his native land, is seeking an order to be put into accommodation and ...

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust said it would work with the Sudanese community to address concerns. "They just think it's another asylum seeker coming from somewhere in Africa - he ...

Accounts of the word's origin differ. Long before the word became associated with mental health institutions, asylum was more closely aligned with the concept of sanctuary. The earliest version of ...

If we claim to value life, we need to prove it. And that starts with recognizing that mental health care is a moral ...

UN watchdog finds refugees and asylum seekers suffered deterioration of physical and mental health in offshore detention camps ...