In this eye-opening interview, Megan Elizabeth Morris sits down with investigative journalist Rob Wipond to delve into the unsettling realities of psychiatric detentions and forced interventions.
Rob Wipond is a freelance investigative journalist of more than two decades, who writes about mental health, psychiatry, civil rights, policing, surveillance and privacy, and social change. His articles have been nominated for 17 magazine and journalism awards.
Rob’s work brings to light the broader societal implications of mental health laws, forced treatment, and involuntary detention. His website is located here: https://RobWipond.com
His book was published in January 2023, entitled 'Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abuse of Guardianships.'
Purchase a copy of the book and find more information at this link: https://robwipond.com/your-consent-is-not-required
In this conversation from 21 December 2023, Megan and Rob explore the layers of response and intervention being offered to people experiencing challenging thoughts and feelings, extreme states, and suicidality; but also, the ways in which people who are not experiencing particularly unusual intensity can be suddenly and unexpectedly swept into a series of life-altering interventions inappropriate to their real needs.
In our notes, these intersections include...
- Discussing the invasive nature of suicide "help" lines, their potential risks, and the controversial practices of tracing calls and forced intervention without consent.
- Highlighting systemic abuse within systems and institutions, and the misuse of structures such as recovery homes for criminal activities.
- Examining the lack of outcry from psychiatric professional organizations about rampant abuses in care establishments.
- Rob's research experiences that reveal psychiatric patients' more-reliable-than-expected recall versus doctors' not-necessarily-reliable documentation, and the overlo..
