Chris Vance Stars in ‘Mental’

Chris Vance will be starring in the upcoming FOX television show, Mental! The show premieres on May 26th at 9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT.

When Dr. Jack Gallagher (Chris Vance), a dynamic, young, and radically unorthodox psychiatrist, is named Director of Mental Health Services at a Los Angeles hospital, he turns a medical institution on its ear. Everything changes as Gallagher’s radical methods and ideology inflame the staff and upset the system as a whole, and he must reconcile his effective, yet highly unorthodox treatment methods with his conservative boss, hospital administrator Nora Skoff (Annabella Sciorra), a woman with whom he shares a romantic past.

Mental is a medical drama that explores the complexities of the human mind as never before. To Jack, each case is a puzzle to be solved and each week, confronted with a different patient’s crisis, including unknown, misunderstood, and even misdiagnosed conditions, Gallagher must plunge inside the mind of his patient long enough to gain true understanding of that patient, and to uncover what just might be the key to long-term recovery. Ever the rebel, Jack insists on getting to the root of his patients’ illnesses by exploring first who they are as human beings.

Patients find themselves at the hospital for a variety of reasons: some are brought in by the police on 72-hour holds, some are self-admitted and some are there to attend the day clinic, seeking to overcome the phobias and psychoses that make everyday life a struggle.

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