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Since the 1960s in the United States, hundreds of thousands of patients with severe psychiatric disorders were discharged from public mental hospitals. At the same time, activists forced changes in commitment laws that made it impossible to treat...

For many thousands of mentally ill people, America has failed to make good on John F. Kennedy's promise of 40 years ago.

Properly treating--rather than criminalizing--mental illness requires reforming our fragmented mental health care system and relaxing regulations to encourage patients to seek treatment.

I was initially assigned the working title, "Pursuing Equality in Health Care for the Elderly Is Futile." I prefer to think of that particular dead end of health policy as one of listening to the wrong music for too long. Hence, this article revises the title song of the movie, Urban Cowboy, to "Looking for better health [rather than either "love" or "love of equality"] in all the wrong places.

The president"s mental-health commission in denial.

Conversations with the new wave of Russia’s civil society opposition.

As Americans debate health care policy, there seems to be bipartisan agreement that reform is long overdue, but the agreement stops there.

The "biased-doctor" model is a woeful misimpression of reality, but one that has become a staple of the "health disparities" campaign.