A decade ago the psychologist and thriller writer Frank Tallis published The Sleep Room, a disturbing tale of a monomaniacal psychiatrist who subjected female patients to months of high dose sedatives ...

A cache of court records has been unsealed in the high-stakes legal battle between Kansas abortion providers and Attorney ...

Last year, more than 1,700 orders for involuntary electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) were approved by tribunals in Australia.

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Guidelines say consultations must thoroughly assess whether a patient is suitable for a treatment. But someone under 18 can ...

The apparent suicide of a patient with an LVAD ... from so that we can have a really informed discussion. If you or a loved one is experiencing mental health-related distress and may need crisis ...

State lawmakers finalized legislation aimed at enforcing a consent decree that seeks to reduce the amount of time inmates declared incompetent to stand trial must wait for mental health treatment.

Screening for perinatal depression is a clinical approach to identifying women in need of mental health diagnoses ... Written informed consent was obtained from all participants at the beginning ...

A Greater Manchester mental health trust has been issued an urgent ... It revealed breaches to people’s safety and patients’ consent to care and treatment. The CQC also found that there ...