Defining typical appearance as a goal of health service provision is harmful and unnecessary for traits that are stigmatized but neither harmful nor distressing.

This commentary on a case considers moral reasons to adopt a palliative approach to the care of some psychiatric patients.

Treatment-resistant schizophrenia can create a high disease burden for some patients, making it hard to get good outcomes.

Inequitable care and outcomes experienced by persons with mental illness have long been exacerbated by stigma expressed by clinicians.

Neglected examples of iatrogenic harm involve persons with severe mental illness who seek inpatient care.

During the 1960s and '70s, the iconography of ads for antipsychotic drugs changed from former depictions of docile white women patients to depictions of hostile black men, reflecting transformations in how American culture viewed race and mental illness.