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 ...

The share of people with severe mental illness in state psychiatric hospitals accused of serious crimes has risen steeply.

In 1958, sociologist August Hollingshead and psychiatrist Fritz Redlich wrote a pioneering book called Social Class and Mental Illness. They began the book with a memorable claim: "Americans prefer to ...

The share of people with severe mental illness in state psychiatric hospitals accused of serious crimes has risen steeply. The shift has all but... How systemic failures turn state mental hospitals ...