Mental health has been widely misunderstood throughout history, often seen as a stigma rather than a condition that needs to be treated.

Growing up as a boy in northern New Jersey, my first encounter with psychiatry was driving with my grandparents past a large, imposing hospital complex in Essex County called Overbrook. Built in a ...

For decades, the health care system has operated under the cruel irony that the people dedicated to healing others were being punished for seeking healing themselves. Doctors, nurses, and health care ...

The institutionalization of people with disabilities in Massachusetts is one of our state’s more shameful episodes. Yet the records needed to document that time have generally been closed to both ...