Sentences with phrase «century lunatic asylum»

Housed in a nineteenth - century lunatic asylum, the Museum Dr Guislain, meanwhile, explores the fascinating - and occasionally disturbing - history of psychology.

Not exact matches

Having served over the centuries as a penal settlement, leper colony and lunatic asylum, its notoriety has, more recently, centred around the fact that President Nelson Mandela and many of his colleagues were imprisoned here during the final years of the apartheid regime.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (PC, PS4) Not many video games devote themselves seriously to exploring issues in mental health (murderous cackling villains and games set in scary lunatic asylums don't count) and still fewer attempt to do so via a swordfighting game set in the eighth century featuring a psychotic Pict with PTSD.