In the weeks before a sensational 1925 murder trial, Dr. H.S. Hulbert reported that he was receiving threats as he prepared ...

According to Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, an author and expert in women’s history in the United States, psychiatrists during the Victorian era—or "alienists" as they were often called in the 19th ...

Mentally ill from across the country were taken to Rio in the hopes they would be committed The hospital adopted the ideas of the French alienists Philippe Pinel (1745–1826) and Jean-Étienne Esquirol ...

As Wanger finished his plea, Giesler stepped forward and added: "Not guilty by reason of temporary insanity." The judge appointed three alienists to examine Wanger.