Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward By Elizabeth Ford, MD Reviewed by Lloyd I Sederer, MD The sad truth about serious mental illnesses ...

What Is a Psych Ward? A psych ward, also called a psychiatric ward or unit, is where you go to get short-term or in-patient treatment for serious mental health issues. You’ll receive around-the-clock ...

“Are you a cutter?” the medical aide asked me, gearing to strap a blood pressure monitor around my upper arm to take my vitals at 11 o’clock one evening. I had entered the psychiatric unit, or as it ...

It was the afternoon of May 17, 2007, and Patrick Miller was in the rec room of Bellevue Hospital’s 19 North jail ward, indulging in his favorite pastime: propping up gym mats to create a maze and ...

In the acute psych wards I’ve been in, there is a kind of paranoia about music – that it’s a dangerous force which could unravel the whole system, make the patients go mad(der), induce an uprising, ...