Gideon Johannes "Johan" Geel has been selected to fill the roles of executive director and chief financial officer (CFO) of ...

Geel, Belgium — It was dinnertime, and Dis and Luc were at it again, poking at each other like puppies. "OK, you two, that's enough," said Toni Smit, as she set the last of the plates on the table.

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The town of Geel, in Belgium's Flanders region, is home to a surprising centuries-old tradition, where patients with mental health issues live with host families. It's said to date back to the 14th ...

At the center of Geel, a charming Belgian town less than an hour's drive from of Antwerp, is a church dedicated to Dymphna, a saint believed to have the power to cure mental disorders. It's a medieval ...

It has been an important place of pilgrimage for healing mental illness for centuries, and it was one of the earliest models of psychiatric care that allowed patients to live among the community. We ...

“Half of Geel is crazy, and the rest is half crazy,” runs a joke often told about the Belgian city of Geel. On the surface, it may seem unremarkable with its pretty market square and river views, ...

In the Belgian town of Geel, families have long taken in people with psychiatric conditions. Could this approach work elsewhere? Ann Peetermans and Iosif, who lives with her as a boarder, feeding a ...

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LAAS GEEL, Somaliland — The cave walls here are alive with masterpieces of ocher on sandstone, our oldest paint on our oldest canvas. It is safe to say the ancient pastoralists who created this ...