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

by Wipond, Rob
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Overview

Asylums are supposed to be a thing of the past. But they didn't really go away--they evolved.

The reality is that more law-abiding Americans are being psychiatrically detained "for their own good" and forcibly treated today than at any time in history.

The idea that we're living in a "deinstitutionalized" world and only dangerous people ever get forcibly treated is wrong. Across the nation, individuals from all walks of life are subjected to constant surveillance and the rampant use of powerful tranquilizing drugs, restraints, seclusion, and electroshock. Some justify these practices as necessary, but for many people, they do more harm than good.

This mental health policing isn't limited to hospitals and psychiatric wards--it's occurring in emergency rooms, long-term care facilities, troubled-teen and residential treatment centers, and even in people's own homes under outpatient commitment laws.

Driven on one hand by individuals' genuine concerns for the well-being of others, and on the other by a toxic system that prioritizes power, profit, and social control, psychiatric coercion and force are used to:

- "clean" the streets
- manage complaints in shelters, group homes, prisons, and long-term care facilities
- control school children
- "settle" family conflicts
- increase hospital profits (often through fraud)
- quash workplace disagreements
- discredit whistleblowers

An overly medicalized and deeply flawed mental health system penetrates into every corner of society, detaining and coercively treating people in ways that are all-too-often terrifying, traumatizing, and permanently damaging.

Thoroughly researched, with alarming true stories and hard data from the US and Canada, Rob Wipond's Your Consent Is Not Required builds an unassailable case for the need for vigilance and reform.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Wipond, Rob
  • ISBN: 9781637741481
  • Condition: Used
  • Number Of Pages: 304
  • Publication Year: 2023
Language: English

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