The American Psychiatric Association has released the blueprint for the fifth edition of its official handbook of diagnoses, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Will the proposed revisions, which could place more of the population under pathology, help us to better understand mental disorders?

Sentence seriously mentally ill offenders to psychiatric treatment for the same length of time one would sentence any other offender.

The Supreme Court has previously held that individuals have a fundamental right to make personal health care choices without government interference, which may support a challenge to the constitutionality of ObamaCare.

On October 31, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Community Mental Health Centers Act, through which psychiatric patients would be treated in small community clinics rather than in large expensive state hospitals. Though the act promised to improve conditions and save millions of dollars, it mostly added...

The issue of forced medication is by no means new.

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Do not expect change any time soon. Federal "advocates" are standing in the way of reform.

The president"s mental-health commission in denial.