Western State Hospital is a large psychiatric hospital in Lakewood. The state agency overseeing Western State Hospital is accused of gross negligence after a 69-year-old psychiatric patient was ...

When resistance is labeled "derangement," psychiatry repeats an old pattern: pathologizing dissent while ignoring the ...

For 47 years from 1915 to 1962, Morningside Psychiatric Hospital in Portland, Oregon, was the sole bidder to provide care for Alaskans who had been ordered committed as mentally ill. For all those ...

Alaska has a 125-year history of using the lowest bid to provide care for psychiatric patients who end up in a locked facility. The well-being and safety of the patients and their recovery have always ...

Comprehensive mental care gives patients and families the tools to understand what they are experiencing. ”— Dr.

Nov. 1—The state agency overseeing Western State Hospital is accused of gross negligence after a 69-year-old psychiatric patient was strangled to death by his roommate, according to a recently filed ...