Psychiatric Care

A new study of cult murders in the U.S. suggests that even the deepest and most disturbing convictions are no proof of mental illness—nor, some argue, should they be.

• By Tristan Bronca

A new study finds that a dog might be just what the doctor ordered.

• By Zazie Todd

Researchers search for the proximate causes of violence in criminal psychiatric patients.

• By Nathan Collins

We met at 18. We wed at 24. At 27, I checked my wife into a psych ward—for the first time. How mental illness re-shapes a marriage.

• By Mark Lukach

Four destinations across the Web that Pacific Standard staffers find themselves returning to again and again.

• By Pacific Standard Staff