Western State Hospital is a large psychiatric hospital in Lakewood. The state agency overseeing Western State Hospital is accused of gross negligence after a 69-year-old psychiatric patient was ...

The world’s largest professional psychiatry organization is preparing for the day when biological indicators help diagnose and treat mental illness.

Patients with experience of self-admission describe increased autonomy, improved conditions for recovery and reduced strain in relationships with relatives. They also report that access to ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health specialists started using telemedicine much more frequently. Despite many benefits, a new study finds that virtual visits did not make it easier for ...

LOS ANGELES -- The use of chemical restraint was more common among Black patients versus white and Hispanic patients in psychiatric emergency settings, a single-center study suggested. Among 852 ...

But simply offering telemedicine will not address the barriers that many rural patients face in obtaining mental health care, ...

WMCHealth, the largest hospital system in the Hudson Valley, routinely discharged vulnerable mental health patients without adequate evaluation or stabilization measures and improperly kept inpatient ...

MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A psychiatric patient from Garnet Health Medical Center has been charged after escaping from the facility, New York State Police announced on Friday. Christopher Morgan, 40 ...

(WXYZ) — The 7 Investigators were the first to show you in February how patients have been alleging they were held against their will in psychiatric hospitals, or ...