In some cases, former mental patients now call the streets home.

The American team plans to interview about 30 current and former mental patients.

But mental patients and their families particularly need the protection of law.

It wasn't at all the usual thing for children to be mental patients.

They spread out the search and find the dead body of the mental patient.

So last fall, he took a second job working nights helping mental patients at a state hospital.

Picture the mental patient standing there, staring at the ground.

Moscow has also adopted a new set of rights for mental patients.

To test this idea, participants were given information about several hypothetical mental patients.

After a lot struggle the cousin is shot to dead by one of the mental patients.

He also started to experiment with music therapy as a treatment for his mental patients.

She also spent three years making weekly visits to mental patients.

"For me, the experience of being a mental patient itself was very traumatic," he said.

"He's a mental patient and they should use a special medical team or their sticks if there is a problem."

Likewise, most mental patients in state hospitals should not be there, officials say.

Substance abuse has been associated with greater violence among both community members and mental patients.

"We're getting a lot more of the very agitated mental patients who really don't have any other place to go," she said.

Mental patients with nowhere to go did not appear by the thousands on city streets until well into the 1980's.

His birth father was also a mental patient, whom she had met during one of her many years within a state institution.

The mansion itself became a ward for male mental patients.

Their residents are mainly former mental patients or poor people unable to care for themselves.

A new law regarding involuntary treatment of mental patients was put into action in 1969.

We meet a former mental patient in Dallas whose life has been transformed by having a place of his own.

"Every doctor, including a psychiatrist who would have mental patients, has to be protected in some way," the woman said.

"I still walk around with a tape measure in my pocket, like some sort of mental patient."