Psychiatric hospital

It took a lot more than practice for this week’s guest on The Last Laugh podcast to overcome his crippling depression and find his way back into the spotlight.

Without enough beds in mental facilities, Pennsylvania is forcing the ‘mentally unfit’ to stay locked up. One has become borderline catatonic waiting for help.

Doctor Stephen Seager pens a fascinating and terrifying tell-all about his high-stakes job at a ‘Silence of the Lambs’-style forensic institute.

A new study reveals that prisons in America house ten times as many mentally ill as the state-run psychiatric wards that could actually treat them.

May is Short Story Month. Here are Jane Ciabattari’s favorite new collections, from an ironic new voice to a posthumous release.

Novelist Victor LaValle’s The Devil in Silver combines religion, mental illness and horror, and shows how those three easily blend together. By Drew Toal.

Every year, thousands of healthy Chinese are forcibly locked up and ‘treated’ in mental institutions, according to a new report by the Chinese Human Rights Defenders.