Welcome to State of Mind, a new section from Slate and Arizona State University dedicated to exploring mental health. Follow us on Twitter. When people hear the term “advance directive,” they usually ...

Trusts and estates attorneys devise estate plans that will protect their clients during their lifetimes and upon death. To do that we have our mainstay tools: wills, trusts and powers of attorney for ...

The concept of advanced planning for psychiatric illness emerged in the 1990s; more than half of U.S. states now have a psychiatric directive statute on the books. Interest in such laws coincided with ...

While advance directives are quite common for patients with physical impairments, advance directives for people with mental impairments are controversial. In many countries, including Germany, there ...

In the midst of a schizophrenia relapse, when psychotic symptoms return after a period of stability, you may experience issues like paranoia, hallucinations, delusions, confused thinking, and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Peer worker–facilitated psychiatric advance directives proved effective in decreasing compulsory hospital ...

In August, 2014, following the tragic suicide of comic genius Robin Williams, Kay Redfield Jamison published an article in the NY Times titled “To Know Suicide.” In this essay, Dr. Jamison mentions ...

Georgia is now one of 25 states allowing people to write directions for their future mental health care just in case they experience a behavioral health crisis. Psychiatric advance directives were ...