Mentally Ill? Here’s a Bus Ticket
A Las Vegas hospital is transporting mentally ill patients via solo trips on Greyhound buses.
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Mental Health
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New Research Suggests Everybody’s Less Satisfied
A widely read 2009 study described a decline in self-reported well-being among American women. Newly published research finds this trend also holds true for men.
Mentally Ill Homeless Improve With Group Living
Bucking a trend, a new book shows that group living can inoculate the homeless who are mentally ill against a return to the streets.
Marijuana Use Hastens Onset of Schizophrenia
A review of 83 studies provides strong evidence that reducing marijuana use could delay or even prevent some forms of psychosis.
How to Stop Suicide by Cop
A growing movement is training police officers not to kill citizens—even when they seem to be asking for it.
Are More Gun Laws for Mentally Ill Off Target?
Obsessing over the role mental illness played in the Gabrielle Giffords shooting avoids the larger issue of gun violence, argues the former head of the American Psychiatric Association.
A Psychological Autopsy of Bobby Fischer
Chess player Bobby Fischer's tortured life illustrates why promising young talents deserve better support programs.
Are You Normal or Finally Diagnosed?
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is a list that can be abused to the detriment of patients and benefit of drug companies.
Who Benefits? DSM Conflicts of Interest
Conflicts, whether over ties to the pharmaceutical industry or fights over new categories of illness, come with the turf in revising psychiatry's most important reference.
Infallibility and Psychiatry’s Bible
The latest "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" is being revised and, by some, reviled.