Ellen Barry

In 1776, Cherokee leaders looked for ways to navigate a foreboding future. Nanyehi, a.k.a. Nancy Ward, is venerated and reviled for her choice.

The process of “deprescribing,” in which a doctor helps a patient taper off a psychiatric medication, is now being considered in the development of federal health policy.

An annual psychiatric meeting was abuzz over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s call to rein in the use of depression medications. Some fear it will drive patients away from care.

Doctor’s visits for children’s anxiety rose by more than 250 percent over 10 years, according to a study of nearly two million children.

In the final stages of his dementia, a long-lost memory from childhood returned, perfectly formed. What was going on in his brain?

The health secretary has long complained that Americans overuse psychiatric medications. New policies he is introducing aim to change that.

With Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aiming to rein in the use of psychiatric drugs, psychiatrists are preemptively addressing how and when patients should quit taking them.

Suicides among young adults dropped most sharply in states that actively embraced the 988 crisis line, new research has found.

A psychologist, she urged patients to confront the things that frightened them, revolutionizing her field’s approach to post-traumatic stress disorder.

Eliminating outreach to people with severe mental illness set off such a cascade of bad outcomes that Idaho has scrambled to reverse the cuts.