One year ago Thursday, the horrific school shooting in Parkland, Florida, sparked an intense national debate over firearm-related violence. As some pushed for broader restrictions on the Second ...

Deinstitutionalization, the name given to the policy of moving people with serious brain disorders out of large state institutions and then permanently closing most or all of those institutions has ...

Charlotte, Raleigh killings expose gaps that keep the severely mentally ill from involuntary commitment | Opinion ...

Chief Medaria Arradondo of the Minneapolis Police Department made it plain in his testimony: Derek Chauvin’s knee on George Floyd’s neck—after Floyd was prone, handcuffed and unresponsive—violated ...

With the birth of deinstitutionalization, the closure of state mental hospitals and asylums, social justice advocates rejoiced in the sudden provision of equality for the mentally ill. At the pinnacle ...

In the past few years I have seen a number of sensationalistic stories documenting the problems of deinstitutionalizing the chronically mentally ill. The media exploit a theme of human misery and ...

Major changes aimed at treating psychiatric patients in the community instead of hospital requires clear and strong leadership, as well as and long-term political and financial commitment, analysis ...

One of the charming, if bizarre, discoveries I made living in New England was its constellation of splendid, thoroughly abandoned mental institutions. They occupied commanding heights in bucolic rural ...