Mental Health Month was established in 1949 to increase awareness of the importance of mental health and wellness in Americans’ lives, and to celebrate recovery from mental illness.

Mental health care advocates hope the video of police beating the homeless man, who later died, will spark systemic reforms in treatment of the mentally ill, even in this era of funding deficiencies.

The committee responsible for revising the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — psychiatry’s diagnostic “bible” commonly referred to as the DSM — has dropped the inclusion of two controversial new diagnoses that it had previously proposed, and re-opened its website for public comment on other potential revisions.

A new study finds that antipsychotic drugs can help many people with schizophrenia, cutting patients' risk of relapse by 60 percent.

It's National Children's Mental Health Awareness Week (May 6-12), and we want to make as big a noise as we can, letting as many people as possible know that we think kids' mental health is as important as their physical health.