Mental hospitals and psych wards provide specialized care for individuals with severe mental health issues, offering treatment, support, and a safe environment.

Momentum picked up in the 1950s and ’60s as new drugs were released to treat mental illness and figures such as French philosopher Michel Foucault and novelist Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over ...

Back in the 1950s, America locked up too many people in psychiatric hospitals with shocking and deplorable conditions. We tried to correct for that, with an eye toward providing services in the ...

In "Hard facts on drugs, mental illness must be faced" (Sept. 30), author Nick Magrino presents an argument for institutionalizing Minneapolis' homeless population. He uses shocking and disturbing ...

In time, "prisons became the alternative mental hospitals," Rutgers’ Mechanic said. The Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane, from the 1885 Wisconsin Blue Book. (Wikimedia Commons) ...

Most others who formerly would have been treated at state mental hospitals before the decades of “deinstitutionalization” beginning in the 1960s now live with their families, in private care ...