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Senators Discuss Changing Background Checks Bill
(WASHINGTON) — Senators backing gun control are discussing ways to revise the defeated Senate background check bill in order to help win the votes they need to...
Mental Health Researchers Reject Psychiatry’s New Diagnostic ‘Bible’
Just weeks before psychiatry’s new diagnostic “bible”—the DSM 5— is set to be released, the world’s major funder of mental health research has announced that it...
B-ing Strong
BOSTON -- Shortly after the Boston bombings I posted a note here about the mental health effects of mass violence, which often go on for years and even decades...
NH’s Ayotte Defends Gun Control Vote
(WARREN, N.H.) -- A woman whose mother was killed in last year's school shooting in Newtown, Conn., confronted Sen. Kelly Ayotte Tuesday during the senator's...
Manchin: Gun Bill to be Reintroduced
(WASHINGTON) — One of the architects of failed gun control legislation says he's bringing it back. Sen. Joe Manchin on Sunday said he would re-introduce a...
Photo Essays
‘I’m Gonna Live by the Gun and Roam’: Portrait of a Spree Killer, 1951
The story of the American mass murderer Billy “Cockeyed” Cook — who killed six people, including an entire family of five, during a terrifying three-week spree...
Time.com Specials
Health Checkup: Kids and Mental Health
Too many kids suffer psychological ills, but there are more ways than ever to help
Articles from Around the Web
Mental health' bible' is updated
An update to one of the most important manuals in mental health - known as the bible of psychiatry - is published. ...
The Texas Tribune: With Consensus and Money, State Takes on Mental Health Care
support for mental health. ...
Psychiatry's revamped DSM guidebook fuels debate
The new criteria are among the changes that will be released with the publication this weekend of the long-awaited guidebook that psychiatrists and other mental health clinicians...
A New Approach to Disciplining Mentally Ill Inmates
New York City's new policy, which will include counseling and medicine, is intended as an alternative to solitary confinement and aims to address the increase in such prisoners...
