After a tragedy, gun companies want us discussing anything but guns. Here's how both parties, and the media, comply

A crusading journalist with a bipolar son says jails have become warehouses for the mad -- and argues for forced commitment.

Patients are telling their therapists not to use the word “aspect” because movie misuses terminology consistently

"The vast majority of mentally ill people are non-violent," Oliver says. And yet they're the GOP's scapegoat

Half of all Americans killed by police every year are mentally ill

Why psychiatric speculation isn't helping matters

The restriction was criticized by the NRA and the ACLU

PBS' "Bedlam" director Ken Rosenberg spoke to Salon about how incarceration won out over hospitalization

A new study reveals that 10 times as many people with serious mental illnesses are in jails as state hospitals

Republicans are dousing the forest with gasoline while giving a lecture on fire safety

Gun control laws won't do much if we don't address mental health, domestic violence and a host of other issues

Scrutinizing mental illness and violent video games won't stop tragedies

Citing "predictive neglect," Missouri and myriad other states are terminating parents' connection to their children

What do people mean when they blame mass shootings on the mental health of the shooter?