Tens of thousands of Americans each year are voluntarily and involuntarily committed into psychiatric institutes. A memoirist and an organizer share their experiences inside the wards. The first ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about how important real commitment is to athletic success and how sports teams can measure commitment in athletes. Just about every so-called serious athlete is pretty ...

Suzanne Scanlon’s Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen—A Memoir, published today by Vintage Books, examines how three generations have tried to diagnose and treat what each has called madness. The book ...