A brilliant US scientist, millionaire and paranoid schizophrenic withdrew from life, convinced he was being spied on, only to be murdered.

An Asperger’s sufferer in England who plotted to kill his parents was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order yesterday, despite a letter from his mother and father asking the judge for leniency for their son.

An inquiry has been launched after a mental health worker was stabbed, kicked and had boiling water thrown over her by a patient.

New Zealand's once frighteningly high suicide figures are coming down, but that doesn't mean we should relax, says Deborah Coddington.

Tying the knot is positive for the mental health of both men and women, according to a New Zealand-led international study.

A coroner is calling for a national legal help phone line for prisoners in police custody after a lawyer could not be found for a man who later hanged himself.

After knock-backs author worked hard to publish her own book.

A study of NZers shows kids who suffer psychological or social adversity are at greater risk of suffering long-lasting health problems.

A self-help course has been blamed by a coroner for the death of a woman who jumped from a Sydney office window.

Therapists and counsellors say tight new rules for claiming ACC subsidies for sexual abuse counselling have become "a rapists' charter"

It has been a bad year for the controversial Church of Scientology.

A new program to help reduce ACC costs will make it more difficult for some people to get medical scans.

The estranged wife of convicted murderer Tony Worrell says she regrets not doing more to make him stay home the night he drove into two cars.

Tony Worrell was responsible for Katie Powles' death when he deliberately crashed into her on June 3, 2008, a jury found today.