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The Decolonizing Mental Health series dismantles the racism that underscores the mental healthcare industry. By focusing its gaze on the transformative work of therapists and individuals of color, it calls for redressal of the ways in which we define psychiatric illness and health.

Shawna Murray-Browne’s quest to help BIPOC access ways of nurture, care, and healing.
How Idris Mitchell’s bipolar disorder put him in an eternal pursuit of beauty and joy.
Lloyd Hale’s journey from being a convict to a peer support specialist living in recovery.
Funding for Mysteries of Mental Illness is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Johnson & Johnson, the American Psychiatric Association Foundation, and Draper, and through the support of PBS viewers.
Episodes
Today, with cutting-edge treatments for mental illness, the biggest battle is inclusion.
The fascinating story behind the rise and fall of the mental asylum in the United States.
Treatment of mental illness over history has been trial and error.
Science and societal factors shape ever-shifting definitions of mental health and illness.
Extras
Who is the mysterious woman at the funeral for Alison Wilson's husband?
Understanding eating disorders and anxiety through the eyes of teens and their families.
Barbara Jordan’s voice shook the nation. Discover her story in The Inquisitor.
Librarians across the U.S. examine how the review of library materials is impacting communities.
A professor seeks to prove Arthurian legends have roots in actual British history.
Experts search for evidence that female gladiators once existed in Ancient Rome.
Learn about Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of Night.
Elie Wiesel vowed to always speak up whenever people were enduring suffering and humiliation.
Elie Wiesel reunited with his sister in France.
In "Night," Elie Wiesel recounts a memory of witnessing three victims being hung.