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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...

While the tragic attack on Gabby Giffords may or may not have been caused by over-the-top rhetoric, there is still an undeniable problem with the poisonous discourse in today's politics.

What responsibility does an institution have to the wider community when it has identified a deeply disturbed individual?

Altering public attitudes toward the mentally ill depends largely on whether they receive treatment that works.

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...

Panelists judged the effectiveness of the Community Mental Health Centers Act on October 31, 2003.

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

Several states have recently shown that they can save on costs without compromising public safety by intelligently reducing their prison populations.