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The therapists are being gaslit by gaslighting—they’re being told that it’s happening, but it’s not. Jonathan Alpert, a therapist in New York and Washington, D.C., told me he saw a couple recently who ...

By the time Maggie May, an Arkansas resident in her 30s, was admitted to a psychiatric clinic in 2024, she had been ...

When prison inmates break the rules, they may be placed in solitary confinement—sometimes for 24, 48 or 72 hours. Although it ...