Psychiatric hospitals, or psych wards, are places that help rehabilitate those with serious mental health conditions. Here patients are provided with treatment for their disorders….
In his 1949 piece “Creative Therapy”, Jacob Lawrence paints this engaging scene that depicts several psychiatric patients engaged in painting. Prior to his prestige and…
At times, it is easy to assume that those admitted to the psychiatric ward of hospitals are affected only by staff-patient relationships. Brian E. Pardee’s…
Emergency physician, author, and public speaker Dr. Louis M. Profeta works at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. His poem, “I’ll Look At Your Facebook Profile Before I Tell…
On April 26, 2015, 19-year-old Timothy Henderson, a resident of the North West Territories in Canada, was taken off life support after sustaining self-harm injuries,…
You are seven years old… alone in the hospital, away from home and the support of family and friends. You can’t go to school, roughhouse…
