The following text field will produce suggestions that follow it as you type.

Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships
Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships

Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships

Current price: $24.99
Loading Inventory...
Get it at Barnes and Noble

Size: Audiobook

Get it at Barnes and Noble
In the first work of investigative journalism in decades to give a comprehensive view into contemporary psychiatric incarceration and forced interventions, exposes how rising numbers of people from many walks of life are being subjected against their will to surveillance, indefinite detention, and powerful tranquilizing drugs, restraints, seclusion, and electroshock. 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 private hospitals, and also in group and long-term care facilities, troubled-teen and residential treatment centers, and even in people’s own homes under outpatient commitment orders. Intended to “help,” for many people the experiences are terrifying, traumatizing, and permanently damaging. Driven partly by individuals’ genuine concerns for the “mental health” of others, and partly by institutions entangled with goals of power, profit, and social control, psychiatric coercion is increasingly used to: Thoroughly researched, with alarming true stories and hard data from the US and Canada, Rob Wipond’s builds an unassailable case for greater transparency, vigilance, and change.
Powered by Adeptmind