The graphic novel Swallow Me Whole highlights the need for patient-centered care that engages not only patients but also extended family and the community.

“Liza Long and ‘Michael’” demonstrates that new media can be used to shift social perceptions of those with mental illness from violent to vulnerable.

Risks of off-label medication to treat aggression should be balanced with consequences of not responding to social factors.

If a patient’s feelings become sources of resistance to treatment, clinicians need to know how to address these feelings’ influence on the therapeutic capacity of patient-clinician relationships.

AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Renee Mao, a third-year medical student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, interviewed Dr. Tarris Rosell, PhD, DMin, MDiv, about strategies for incorporating spiritual care into oncology.

Although sharing health records with psychiatric patients may cause harm, clinicians also must consider beneficence and autonomy in making this decision.

Physicians with a mental illness can have good, empathic relationships with their patients, even if patients know of their condition.

AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Emily Johnson, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, interviewed Susan Mizner, JD, about some merits, drawbacks, and alternatives to guardianship.

Registries of those considered dangerous focus wrongly on those with mental illness, who account for only 4 percent of violent acts committed in the United States.

Movements to deinstitutionalize people with mental illness and to make institutionalization more legally difficult have resulted in a lack of space and resources for the care of those with severe mental illness, and many have ended up in jails and prisons.