For the past decade, mental health clinicians in California have been leading an offensive campaign to increase patients’ access to timely care.
Steven Soderbergh’s new film is the story of a women held in a psychiatric hospital. It shows how film-makers are doing a better job with mental health issues.
In this era of law-and-order politics,...we do not need more incarceration. It does not make people safer, it tears communities apart, and many people, including incarcerated people themselves, have argued that incarceration actually produces mental illness.
A group of eminent psychiatrists and mental health professionals have published their assessment of President Donald Trump's fitness for office.
About 60 percent of women who witnessed trauma in this South Side study had PTSD, compared to 20 percent in the general population.
To flee from a war zone, only to be met with a fatal police bullet on the other side of the world: It's an uncomfortable, truncated narrative of an abbreviated life. This was how Alfred Olango's life concluded late last month, at the intersection of many forces of violence that converged at a San Diego suburb, in a scene that braided strands of war, policing, race and migration.
As the state budget impasse enters its eleventh month, Progress Illinois examines how mental health services and providers have been impacted.
According to data from the Center for Disease Control, black women have long faced high rates of depression and low rates of treatment. “Scandal” has been so groundbreaking in many ways; it’s curious that it hasn’t seized a really ripe, low-hanging opportunity to be more progressive in its depiction of black women’s struggles to safeguard their mental health.
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