Gosiame Thamara Sithole -- who made headlines for the alleged record-breaking birth -- was taken to the psychiatric ward last week at Tembisa Hospital in Johannesburg and examined by a medical team.

Admitted to a psychiatric care unit for an eating disorder, Ruth Szymankiewicz was allegedly supposed to be under round-the-clock care Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She ...

A story has emerged about a woman in her 30s who was forcibly hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital after requesting a divorce, following a protective hospitalization application filed by her husband ...

Editor’s note: Yu Lei is a nurse at a tertiary psychiatric hospital in China’s eastern Jiangsu province with more than 10 years of experience. Her hospital receives patients with various mental health ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- A teenager spent months longer than necessary locked in a psychiatric hospital, and now out and in the custody of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, he wanted to ...

A French cannibal who murdered a farmer and cooked his heart and tongue with white beans escaped from a psych ward this week — and brutally attacked a random woman walking her dog, according to ...

Police arrested a 24-year-old psychiatric patient Tuesday for allegedly assaulting a nurse at Kings County Hospital. Authorities say Robert Rush attacked and beat the female nurse into unconsciousness ...

At parties, I used to explain to people who wanted to know what I do — I’m a psychiatrist — that caring for people with mental illness on a psych ward is like working in a place apart from the world.

The 14-year-old was admitted to the ward at the now-closed Huntercombe Hospital in the U.K. for an eating disorder Szymankiewicz, who reportedly self-harmed, was allegedly supposed to be under ...