A regional New South Wales public hospital will soon close its mental health inpatient facility , in favour of a home-based service.Author ...

Greece’s mental-health system for adolescents is in deep crisis, as highlighted by data from a recent intervention by the ...

“We are in court right now defending the involuntary care provisions of the Mental Health Act,” the premier confirmed. “We ...

Tina Blackburn woke up in her rental car outside the locked doors of Medical Behavioral Hospital of Indianapolis in Greenwood ...

The study’s findings demonstrate that involuntary psychiatric treatment causes death. To their horror, researchers found that ...

David Baden, a top official for Oregon Health Authority, which oversees the Oregon State Hospital, and Dr. Amit Bhavan, the ...

Patients were restrained, verbally abused and locked in seclusion for weeks, prompting criminal charges and resignations.

Many defendants declared unfit for trial have often waited three months or longer to be transferred to a hospital – ...

A groundbreaking Karolinska Institutet study, published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, found that individuals ...

As the U.S. considers policies to forcibly detain the homeless and others in psychiatric institutions, a new study shows ...

A man jailed on felony drug possession charges has been waiting 469 days in the Clay County Detention Center for mental health services that could allow his case to move forward. It took him 75 days ...