Behind New York City’s Shift on Mental Health, a Solitary Quest The psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey has been advocating tougher involuntary psychiatric treatment policies for 40 years. Now it’s paying off.
How Hospitals Respond When Mentally Ill People Come in From the Streets More people with severe mental illness may soon arrive in New York City’s emergency rooms. What happens to them next?
Mental Health in America: The Politics of ‘Insight’ Psychiatry still wants patients to have the “correct attitude,” but too often ignores how that can depend on culture, race, ethnicity and faith.
Why Was Joshua Held for More Than Two Years for Someone Else’s Crimes? Honolulu incarcerated the wrong man for more than two years — a miscarriage of justice that shows the cruel inadequacy of America’s approach to mental health.
California’s Fight Against Homelessness Has Turned Desperate and Dangerous A new psychiatric “court” plan for thousands of unhoused people puts their civil and human rights at risk.