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Respect and recovery from a mental illness are inextricably linked, said Georgia's Commissioner of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities...

DESCRIPTION: Speaking at the annual conference which celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Georgia Mental Health Consumers Network, pioneer acti...

Mark Ragins, MD, is the medical director at the Village, Long Beach, California, operated by the Mental Health Association of Los Angeles. He is f...

Dr. Don Berwick, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), explained priorities for health reform that will affect beh...

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Kathy Muscari, executive director of the West Virginia Mental Health Consumer Association, inspired those attending a conference in Georgia when sh...

Involuntary outpatient treatment, called IOT or AOT, is a controversial strategy mandating psychiatric outpatient treatment. Professor of Law an...

Sam Tsemberis, executive director of Pathways to Housing, explains how Kendra's Law for assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) interferes with the p...

Steve Muccio, executive director of PEOPLe, Inc., a peer-operated program in Upstate New York, describes working without coercion to help people wi...

Thousands of people who died at state psychiatric hospitals were buried with numbered, metal markers. Beckie Child, MHA of Oregon, describes how t...

Citizen activists are repairing the unkempt cemeteries where tens of thousands of patients were buried in unmarked graves. In May 2009, Mental Hea...

Sharon Jenkins Tucker, executive director of the Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network, received the 2009 Clifford W. Beers Award from Mental Heal...

Dr. Chaudry is vice president of the World Federation for Mental Health. He lives in Lahore, Pakistan, where is head of the Department of Psychiat...

Should the term schizophrenia be changed? That question engaged 75 clinicians who attended the 162nd annual meeting of the American Psychiatric As...

Mental health advocate, and congressman from Rhode Island, Rep. Patrick Kennedy proposes a patient bill of rights.

Author and journalist, Mary Beth Pfeiffer speaks at the RIPPD pre-booking jail diversion forum, New York City, June 4, 2008.

RIPPD forum on pre-booking jail diversion,New York City, June 4, 2008.

Maria Angelina Ortiz spoke at the RIPPD forum on pre-booking jail diversion in New York City, June 4, 2008.

Jean Griffin, panelist at RIPPD forum, New York City, June 4, 2008.

Don Kamin, panelist at RIPPD forum, New York City, June 4, 2008.

Retired Det. Marquez Claxton, co-founder of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, speaks at a conference in New York City.

Panel presentation, Association of Health Care Journalists. March, 2008: E. Fuller Torrey, MD, president Treatment Advocacy Center

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Panel presentation, Association of Health Care Journalists. March, 2008: Harvey Rosenthal, NYAPRS.

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