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Insanity

Best Article History Health

Breakdown Palace

In late 1960s London, famed psychoanalyst R.D. Laing created a radical asylum—one with no doctors, no locks, and no limits.

Alex Mar Topic Apr 2019 50min Permalink

Crime Health

‘What Are We Going to Do About Tyler?’

Tyler Haire was locked up at 16. A Mississippi judge ordered that he undergo a mental exam. He would wait 1,266 days in an adult jail.

Sarah Smith ProPublica Dec 2017 30min Permalink