In reality, psychiatric hospitals and facilities, where I worked as a nurse in the 1960s and 1970s, were respectful of patients’ needs and effective in getting them able to live in the community.

Asylum Street became a dead end when the highway went in. It is now sandwiched between a short highway ramp and Foley Engines ...

The story of American deinstitutionalization has become familiar. In a long arc—from President Kennedy’s Community Mental Health Act of 1963 to the present—federal and state governments dismantled ...

Our son's wait for a bed in a state mental hospital with 930 beds was measured in weeks. The staff was as caring and dedicated as they could be, but it was obvious they were experiencing personnel ...

The approach to treating people with mental illness has swung intensely — and controversially — over the decades from locking people up for years in “insane asylums” to shuttering ...

PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — When the American Psychiatric Association celebrated its 175th anniversary three years ago in San Francisco, it featured photographs of two Virginia mental institutions ...