Tales From the New Asylum

While approximately 1 in 4 outpatient suicides will result in a claim, about 1 in 2 inpatient suicides will result in a claim. The two highest suicide risk times for hospitalized patients are the 1st week after admission and shortly after discharge. Here, learn about likely likely causes of increased suicide risk at discharge in this population.

Many inmates are carried along in the structured, routine flow of the New Asylums without receiving treatment until their situation so demanded. In the case of Mr Henry, the demand came in the form of self-induced isolation.

Here, Mr Hazelwood answers questions about serial murderers that are commonly posed to him. The term serial murderer (or serial killer) was not even a part of the forensic lexicon until the 1970s . . .

“I’m so cold, so weary in my abandonment. Go and find my Mother, O Wind. Take me to the house I never knew.”

Whenever a suicide happens in the New Asylums, a palpable, muted dread descends over the institution...it is added as another sedimentary layer to the strata and culture of the particular institution. Before things get too deeply buried, it is important to excavate...

Gabe was in prison for killing a prostitute. During a bout of hyper-sexuality, intoxication, and paranoia, he believed the prostitute intended to rob him.

Here, Psychiatric Times presents the first recorded version of Dr James Knoll's Tales from the New Asylum—Yesterday. Download, listen, enjoy. "He was five floors up, grasping the outside railing of a medium-security prison dormitory balcony . . ."

Attempting to write an article about 9/11 is fraught with peril from the outset. What can be said that is not repetitious? Then there is the ever present risk of offending those whose lives were forever changed in an overawing, tragic manner.

Here, Debra Pinals, MD, looks at the development of anti-stalking legislation, the epidemiology of stalking, and various stalking classification schemes from a clinical perspective.

Here’s why it is painful to see a man cry: he's not supposed to. Emotions are arresting when society tells us they should not be expressed. In the case of a grown man crying, there are some thousands of years of cultural training laying down the prohibitive regulations.