In late 2022, Erin, a 43-year-old from Pennsylvania, agreed to spend six weeks in a psychiatric ward, getting intensive treatment for an illness she knew she didn’t have. That decision was a last ...

Failings at a Leicestershire mental health ward resulted in patient deaths, a whistleblower has claimed. Dr Mariam Benaris told an employment tribunal yesterday (Wednesday, April 16) that she and ...

A MENTAL health peer worker based at a clinic in Wickford is using her own lived experience to help ensure patient voices ...

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NEW YORK (WABC) -- It has been three years since Michelle Go was shoved onto the subway tracks in front of an oncoming train in Times Square, killing her. The man who's accused of shoving her has a ...

Restrictive practices in mental health settings—such as physical restraint and seclusion—are meant to be a last resort, used only when patients pose a risk to themselves or others. In 2021 and 2022 ...

SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The first real-world study on the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in mental health treatment within a live, multi-site clinical setting has ...

Since the 1980s, psychiatry has been dominated by what we might call a ‘disease‑entity’ model of mental health problems. In ...

MISSISSIPPI - Hundreds of mental health patients in Mississippi have been jailed without ever being charged of a crime. It's a reality for hundreds of people needing mental health care in Mississippi ...