Mental Illness

A new study shows that exposure to police violence is linked with negative mental-health outcomes.

• By Emma Sarappo

Everytown for Gun Safety is playing into the NRA's hands with its Minnesota campaign.

• By David M. Perry

New research finds they are more likely than their black counterparts to be portrayed as victims of mental illness.

• By Tom Jacobs

Researchers find that those who have a mental illness are more likely to be the victim of a violent crime.

• By Jared Keller

A new policy brief uses psychotropic medications as a proxy for mental illness, and finds that, despite criminal justice reforms in the state, the population of mentally ill inmates in jails is growing.

• By Kate Wheeling

New research is working toward creating simple physical tests that could shed light on diseases like anxiety and depression.

• By Matthew Scult

How smart pills and surveillance capitalism threaten civil rights.

• By David M. Perry

The stigma attached to "insane asylums" can be hard to shake, but destroying the structures can mean erasing important parts of our history.

• By Mimi Kirk

A round-up of some of our best stories highlighting the need for reform in mental-heath policy.

• By Emily Moon

Netflix's To the Bone doesn't convey the solitude and paranoia of life with an eating disorder—but it's certainly not the first to twist reality.

• By Elizabeth King

A new report spotlights one case in which an inmate spent 19 years in a "Restrictive Housing Unit."

• By Kate Wheeling

Those with severe mental conditions are more likely to be incarcerated, and less likely to be granted opportunities such as parole.

• By Francie Diep

When public discourse links mental disorders with violence or "craziness," it adversely—and unfairly—affects the lives of millions of people.

• By Rachel Nuwer

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Laura's Law could provide a middle ground between the old norm of total institutionalization and the new one of total abandonment. But the statute is struggling to reconcile forestalling tragedies with patients' rights.

• By Jeneen Interlandi

Cannabis use can cause a signal miscommunication in the brain, which is similar to what might happen in mental illness.

• By Natalie Zarrelli

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

How do mass shootings impact people's attitudes toward the mentally ill?

• By Melanie Tannenbaum

Examining the personality characteristics of America's gun owners.

• By Lisa Wade

In every country in the world, male suicides outnumber female. Will Storr asks why.

• By Will Storr

Over the last two decades, North American cities have been giving homeless people a place to live before any other treatment. The programs mostly work, but now researchers are seeking improvements.

• By Francie Diep

Two brothers—a philosopher and a doctor—attempt to explain the cultural roots of madness.

• By Graeme Wood

Mindi has never harmed her daughter and is capably raising a son, but authorities took her daughter under a concept sometimes called “predictive neglect.”

• By Seth Freed Wessler

A conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Swanson.

• By Lois Beckett