A notoriously brutal industry is slowly building supports for its workers.

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder are often depicted as Type A clean freaks. The reality is much worse.

A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to the disaster ahead. His wife is exhausted. His older son thinks there’s no future. And nobody but him will use the outdoor toilet he built to shrink his carbon footprint.

A nephew investigates his uncle’s suicide

Far too many county jail inmates are dying from suicide, a cause of death critics say can be prevented with reasonable health care services. The problem? Private correctional health care firms may have a goal other than providing adequate care.

All he wants is his own room and a kitchen where he can bake chocolate cake. He dreams of it while he sleeps in tents in parks and under the freeway.

George Floyd’s murder is a brutal reminder that the entire legal edifice—from slavery to mass incarceration—was designed to break down black people meticulously. This isn’t accidental.

Two brothers attempt to bond on a trek in the Cascades

A troubled professor's obsession with "Goodfellas."

In the wake of a vicious murder, the state of Oregon wrestles with what went wrong in its mental health system.

A former NBA player describes his own unraveling.

As psychiatrists and philosophers begin to define a pervasive mental health crisis triggered by climate change, they ask who is really sick: the individual or society?

The latest research suggests it’s not far-fetched at all—especially when you consider all the societal and cultural factors that make today’s games so attractive.

My husband’s struggle with postpartum depression was my struggle, too.

24 hours inside San Francisco’s homelessness crisis.

In late 1960s London, famed psychoanalyst R.D. Laing created a radical asylum—one with no doctors, no locks, and no limits.

A journalist goes undercover in Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum.

A lover's death sends an artist into increasing spirals.

A profile of Bruce Springsteen.

While serving in WWII, Jerome Motto received regular correspondence from a woman he barely knew. These letters led to groundbreaking research on how to reach people at risk.

I know dudes like me aren’t supposed to talk about depression, but I’ll talk about it. If a real motherfucker like me can struggle with it, then anybody can struggle with it.

For years sheriffs, mental health advocates, families and prosecutors have sounded the alarm about the number of people with mental illness arrested and locked up, many for minor crimes.

Why does prenatal care ignore the topic altogether?

The people bringing psychedelic drugs into the mental health mainstream.

On mental health and professional sports.