Back in the 1950s, America locked up too many people in psychiatric hospitals with shocking and deplorable conditions. We tried to correct for that, with an eye toward providing services in the ...

Growing up as a boy in northern New Jersey, my first encounter with psychiatry was driving with my grandparents past a large, imposing hospital complex in Essex County called Overbrook. Built in a ...

A joint investigation by WRAL and North Carolina Health News uncovered a history of issues with two local mental health hospitals that cater to North Carolina's most vulnerable population, children.

The Mental Health Project is a Seattle Times initiative focused on covering mental and behavioral health issues. It is funded by Ballmer Group, a national organization focused on economic mobility for ...