Legal frameworks that only regulate formal psychiatric facilities are written for a system the majority will not use.

The OSH Museum of Mental Health in Salem pulls back the curtain on a chapter of American healthcare that most of us would prefer to skip over entirely. The Kirkbride Building stands proud in Salem, a ...

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Bridgewater is the nation’s only forensic psychiatric facility run by a corrections department, rather than a state mental ...

The OSH Museum of Mental Health in Salem stands as a powerful reminder of a past we’d rather forget, housed in a building that once witnessed both humanity’s compassion and its cruelty. The Kirkbride ...

The Mental Health Project is a Seattle Times initiative focused on covering mental and behavioral health issues. It is funded by Ballmer Group, a national organization focused on economic mobility for ...

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North Carolina’s three state-run psychiatric hospitals — Cherry, Central Regional and Broughton — serve about 570 patients each day. But hundreds more who need inpatient treatment wait weeks — even ...

A psychiatric hospital in Greenville County is under investigation by the South Carolina Department of Public Health over allegations of abuse and neglect of a patient. Springbrook Behavioral Health ...

A scandal in which scores of seniors were sucked into an insurance scam shows how the current system is failing vulnerable people. A recent expose revealed a cottage industry of private psychiatric ...