Ellen Barry

A large-scale randomized trial of texting therapy concluded that its outcomes were as good as video sessions in treating depression.

State officials promise large-scale involuntary addiction and mental health treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge. Critics see “a prison, or a warehouse.”

Mientras los diagnósticos se expanden e incluyen versiones cada vez más leves de las enfermedades, los expertos proponen que el simple hecho de nombrar un padecimiento puede suponer un alivio.

The practice surged in the 1980s and 1990s, before medical groups began warning it was harmful.

As our diagnostic categories expand to include ever milder versions of disease, researchers propose that the act of naming a malady can itself bring relief.

The administration has pledged to end support for Housing First, the approach behind the V.A.’s greatest housing success story.

Therapists are cautious about sharing personal information. When they fall ill or die unexpectedly, the shock can be shattering.

An agency-sponsored forum included critics of psychiatry who believe the drugs can harm a developing fetus. Other experts said antidepressants were safe and necessary.

Warnings about withdrawal from antidepressants have rippled through society in recent years. A new study claims they are overblown.

Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, was detained in February after failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying into the country.