Being a patient in a hospital psychiatric ward or mental health facility can be a deeply lonely experience during the holidays. Katherine Ponte, a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine ...

In late 2022, Erin, a 43-year-old from Pennsylvania, agreed to spend six weeks in a psychiatric ward, getting intensive ...

Where did the data come from? To report this story, The Times analyzed data collected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the federal agency that has gathered restraint information from ...

In almost every state in the country, the supply of inpatient psychiatric care is insufficient to meet the demand. In a 2006 survey, 34 state mental health authorities reported a shortage of beds for ...

Editor’s note: Yu Lei is a nurse at a tertiary psychiatric hospital in China’s eastern Jiangsu province with more than 10 years of experience. Her hospital receives patients with various mental health ...

Sierra Leone, one of the world’s poorest countries, is working to build a modern mental health system from scratch. By Stephanie Nolen Photographs by Finbarr O’Reilly FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — For ...

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On June 1, a beautiful Sunday evening, a frightening incident occurred at Nuremberg, Germany’s North Hospital (Nordklinikum): a 19-year-old patient was injured by police gunfire in the clinic’s ...

Journalist Marfa Khvostova of the online magazine Novaya Vkladka spent a week in the summer volunteering at a military hospital in one of Russia's cities. Global Voices translated, edited for clarity ...