Your Consent is Not Required with Rob Wipond Part 2
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On ReThreading Madness Bernadine and Rob Wipond continue their discussion of his latest book, "Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment and Abusive Guardianships". In...
show moreFrom press release: "There's a common misconception that, due to asylum closures, only 'dangerous' people get committed now. But forced psychiatric interventions today occur in thousands of public and priviate hospitals and also in group and long-term care facilities, troubled-teen and residential treatment centres, and even in people's own homes under outpatient commitment order. Intended to 'help', for many people the experiences are terrifying, traumatizing, and permanently damaging."
Rob's research demonstrates not only the ways in which these forced detentions are the equivalent to torture, that there is no research demonstrating that they are helpful, and that they are indeed on the rise.
Bernadine and Rob list the ways in which you can protect yourself from a forced detention and, if it happens, how to help yourself get discharged.
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