Tienduizenden patiënten in Amerikaanse psychiatrische inrichtingen blijven geheim: families krijgen geen inzage in medische dossiers

Hundreds of thousands of individuals confined to state psychiatric institutions decades ago left behind sealed records that relatives cannot access today, hindering efforts to understand hereditary mental health conditions within families. A woman seeking her great-grandniece's medical history from a New York psychiatric hospital faced repeated denials, despite providing documentation from her