Medfield State Hospital

In honor of Lucia Day on December 13, we’re diving into the origins of a Swedish holiday tradition which evolved from sinister pagan lore to a celebration of light, warmth and music. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collectio ...  Afficher plus

About 400 miles south of New Zealand, on the subantarctic Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku, stands a Sitka spruce whose nearest neighbor is 170 miles away.READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/worlds-loneliest-tree Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See ...  Afficher plus

In the middle of the last century, a movement to free patients from state-run psychiatric hospitals swept the U.S. This movement — deinstitutionalization — is widely blamed for seriously mentally ill people ending up on the streets. The real story goes much deeper than a loss of ...  Afficher plus

Tonight, author Mark Leslie will discuss his book Haunted Hospitals, in which he examines hospitals, asylums, and sanatoriums with formal spectral residents who refuse to move on.  Hospitals are supposed to be places of healing, places of birth, and places of hope. But with all o ...  Afficher plus

It’s been a couple of weeks since everyone moved out to college so we sat down to talk about getting homesick and feeling out of place in a non-diverse environment. Take the science of well-being course with us! Click the link to sign up :) Link: https://click.linksynergy.com/dee ...  Afficher plus

The rising tide of psychiatric emergencies in the US most commonly ends up in the emergency room, where psychiatrists are almost never found and the brunt of the heavy lifting falls on emergency medicine physicians.  Here Dr. H sits down with Dr. Treve Henwood, an emergency me ...