In either instance, chances are that you have encountered the classic histrionic personality disorder. This person exhibits a chronic pattern of attention seeking and excessive emotionality consisting of at least five of the …
The majority of Americans struggle to get decent mental health care, or any mental health care at all. Expansions of insurance, including those in the Affordable Care Act, are enabling more people to pay for treatments.
A small new paper in the British Journal of Psychiatry adds to the debate, offering a new perspective on how schizophrenia is experienced across cultures. Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann worked with a team of …
The science behind America's deepening disturbance.
Mental illness is the number one health issue affecting young people in the U.S., surpassing both asthma and diabetes. Four million American youth deal with a serious mental health issue that affects their everyday lives.
