This guide includes supplemental resources for readers to explore themes of mental health: history, modern science, stigma, addiction, and mental health during covid.
A popular theory links the closing of state psychiatric hospitals to the increased incarceration of people with mental illness. But the reality is more complicated.
Through intimate stories of patients, families, and medical providers, BEDLAM immerses us in America’s national crisis surrounding the care of the severely mentally ill.
Trace efforts to develop guidelines for diagnosing mental illness rooted in empirical science rather than dogma. Explore how science and societal factors are deeply entwined with shifting definitions of mental health and mental illness.
Explore today’s most cutting-edge treatments, based on the latest understanding of mental illness, through profiles of patients undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery, infusions of ketamine and modern electro-convulsive therapy.