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Banyen Books ~ Branches of WisdomThe Rise of Coercive Psychiatry ~ Investigative Journalist Rob WipondRob Wipond, author of Your Consent Is Not Required, discusses the alarming rise of psychiatric coercion—and how we can push for ethical, person-centred alternatives.Asylums may have closed, but their practices persist in troubling ways. More people than ever are being involuntarily committed and forcibly treated. In Your Consent Is Not Required, investigative journalist Rob Wipond exposes how psychiatric incarceration, forced medication, and coercive interventions extend beyond hospitals into homes, schools, prisons, and social services—impacting not only those deemed "dangerous" but also schoolchildren, the elderly, whistleblowers, and marginalized communities. While revealing these hidden injustices, the book also expl...2025-06-201h 02
People First RadioA critical perspective on involuntary careRob Wipond, author of Your Consent is Not Required, visited Nanaimo for an author talk on his book, which takes a critical look at involuntary psychiatric treatment. Wipond says that in the late 90s, after voluntarily seeking treatment, his father was committed for a period of several months, which included experiences of forced electrocunvulsive therapy. “ This […]2025-05-1757 minPeople First RadioA critical perspective on involuntary careRob Wipond, author of Your Consent is Not Required, visited Nanaimo for an author talk on his book, which takes a critical look at involuntary psychiatric treatment. Wipond says that in the late 90s, after voluntarily seeking treatment, his father was committed for a period of several months, which included experiences of forced electrocunvulsive therapy. “ This […]2025-05-1757 minPeople First Radio - Full EpisodesPeople First Radio – May 15, 2025Investigative journalist Rob Wipond visited Nanaimo to speak about the ideas contained in his book Your Consent Is Not Required, which takes a critical look at involuntary psychiatric commitment.2025-05-1657 min
Medicare for AllEpisode 102: Committable
Usually on the Medicare for All Podcast, we talk about people who want healthcare but can’t get it, but today we’re talking about people getting healthcare they have specifically refused: folks who have been involuntarily committed. For plenty of our listeners, the idea of being held against your will at a psychiatric institution feels like a nightmare from another time – something out of gothic fiction or horror movies set far in the past. But for folks struggling with mental illness in 21st century America, the terrifying prospect of psychiatric commitment is alive and well. In fact, a 2020 UCLA s...2024-08-2643 min
Radically Genuine Podcast with Dr. Roger McFillin145. Privacy Violations & Forced Psychiatric Detentions with Rob WipondWe cannot consent unless we are informed. In this episode I welcome back Rob Wipond, a freelance journalist known for his work on psychiatry, civil rights, and privacy, and we explore the troubling reality behind the 9-8-8 suicide and crisis lifeline, launched in July 2022. While intended as a compassionate step forward, this lifeline has led to privacy violations and forced psychiatric detentions, raising concerns about the mental health system's impact on vulnerable individuals. We discuss how psychiatric hospitalizations can often be traumatic and may even increase suicidal tendencies, challenging the effectiveness of current crisis interventions....2024-08-081h 06
ReThreading MadnessDispelling Myths about BC Mental Health Ace with Rob WipondDispelling Myths about the BC Mental Health Act with Rob WipondIt is so very often that we hear misinformation about the BC Mental Health Act. It is so widely held and believed in some of our BC communities, that if you check yourself into a psych ward voluntarily you can leave when you want and you can refused any treatment that you feel won’t work. Rob Wipond, author of Your Consent is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships joins Bernadine Fox to discuss the...2024-07-151h 00
Lost DebateDouble Haters, Peak Solar, Forced TreatmentPresident Biden and former President Trump have the highest share of “double haters” in at least three decades, with new data from Pew showing that a quarter of Americans hold unfavorable views of both men. Ravi discusses this after diving into the politics behind Biden’s latest executive action, which will offer new legal projections for undocumented immigrants who are married to or stepchildren of American citizens, and why the turmoil threatening China’s solar industry impacts the world.Finally, Ravi welcomes Rob Wipond to the show to discuss his new book, ‘Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise i...2024-06-1855 min
Intuitive Public Radio237 • Suicide "Help" Lines? Rob Wipond, Author of Your Consent Is Not Required (21 December 2023)Find more notes, text, images, & links that go with this episode: https://www.intuitivepublicradio.network/p/237-suicide-help-lines-rob-wipond
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The Explorer Poet PodcastE61: Rob WipondRob Wipond is an independent investigative journalist, who reports and comments on community issues. He’s also the author of Your Consent is not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships, a work of investigative journalism that gives a comprehensive view into contemporary civil psychiatric incarceration and forced interventions, exposing 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 even electroshock treatments. You can find the book on Rob’s website, Amazon, or at your local book sell...2024-04-021h 11
Bipolar Recorder52. Forced Psychiatric Treatment... Ethical? Journalist Rob Wipond DiscussesHunter Keegan is joined by investigative journalist Rob Wipond to discuss the ethics of involuntary psychiatric "treatment" in the United States. This intense conversation covers a lot of ground and touches on many facets of the problematic nature of forced medical intervention.
Rob Wipond is on Twitter/X @RobWipond
His official site is www.robwipond.com
Rob's book, "Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships" is available on Amazon (and many other places): https://www.amazon.com/Your-Consent-Not-Required-Guardianships/dp/1637741480
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DEPTH Work: A Holistic Mental Health Podcast79. Why Forced Psychiatric Interventions are More Common Than We Think with Journalist Rob WipondSome of the most egregious harms have been done in the name of “help,” and this is especially true when it comes to forced psychiatric interventions. Investigative journalist, Rob Wipond illuminates the systemic harms of the psychiatric system after experiencing his father attempt to get help and instead of care, be met with coercion and force. As many find out, this is an all too common story. The evidence that psychiatric detention is beneficial to people is lacking, yet rates continue to dramatically rise. From mental health laws and policies, to corruption in pharmaceutical companies, and even political organizations lobb...2024-03-011h 31
The Enrealment HourYour Consent is Not Required: On Psychiatric Wrongdoing with Rob WipondJeff and 'Your Consent is Not Required' author Rob Wipond discuss the realities of psychiatric malfeasance: needless detentions, forced treatments, abusive guardianships. egoic and money-driven quests for power and control. Rob shares his experiences and his data in a way that helps us to understand just how dangerous the system currently is, particularly if you encounter it during an emergency situation. Links and Resources: Rob Wipond's brilliant book, "Your Consent is Not Required"... https://www.amazon.com/Your-Consent-Not-Required-Guardianships/dp/1637741480/Jeff Brown's Healing Books and Courses... https://jeffbrown.co/courses/Trevor Hall's...2024-02-121h 02
ReThreading Madness988 Forced Committals and Suicide Assessment Toola988, Forced Committals, and Suicide assessments With the new 988 suicide hotline being launched, Rob Wipond cautions us on some of the pitfalls that can occur with traumatizing impacts on people. Barbara Phillips talks with us about her experience of being forceably committed and then Bernadine Fox walks us through the usual type of Suicide Assessment Questions that mental health professionals and crisis lines use to assess whether or not someone is suicidal and in need to being detained. Music by Shari Ulrich2023-12-0653 min
Stark RavenOctober 2, 2023On this episode hear from Rob Wipond, author of your consent is not required: the rise in psychiatric detentions, forced treatment, and abusive guardianships alongside Meenakshi Mannoe, local abolitionist talk about forced psychiatric treatment and policing.2023-11-0656 min
The Adoption FilesInterview with Lina Vanegas, MSWLina Vanegas MSW(Masters in Social Work) identifies as a transracial, transnational, displaced person. Her lived experience has motivated her to train, speak and consult on trauma, mental health, adoption and suicide. She shares some of her experience and expertise with us as we talk about how adoption impacts adoptee mental health.
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(1) Lina Vanegas - This is an important read. Forced treatment is... | FacebookOrganizing and Activism of Adopted and Displaced People - Bill of Health (harvard.edu)Demystifying the stigmatization of...2023-09-271h 32Radically Genuine Podcast with Dr. Roger McFillin96. BREAKING: Schools pilot Mental Health Apps behind Parents' backsMental health apps are being introduced with the goal of addressing underdiagnosed and undertreated psychiatric disorders using AI technologies. Kooth U.S. and the Pennsylvania state Department of Human Services signed a $3 million grant to pilot a digital mental health platform in 30 school districts. The platform offers anonymous message boards, online chatting, a personalized library, and journaling options for students in grades 6 to 12. However, concerns have been raised regarding the potential risks of children communicating with unknown Kooth team members on the platform without parental consent.Parents need to get involved—ACTION ITEMS...2023-08-0353 min
KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat BrooksForced Psychiatric Detention Grows Alongside 988 w/ Rob WipondAlmost 11 months ago, the phone number 988 launched as a new crisis number, available to all US landline and cell phone users, that accesses over 200 local and state funded crisis centers. The number is meant to be an easy-to-remember way to access mental health support. It also wraps in the former 10-digit role of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. With a shorter and easier-to-remember phone number, call volume has increased dramatically as compared to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, but as a corollary, so have forced psychiatric holds. The call centers are boldly advertised as confidential, but call centers actually...2023-06-0820 min
Inside Mental HealthThe Rise in Forced Treatment and Abusive Guardianships Part 1There’s a common misconception that, due to asylum closures, only “dangerous” people get committed to a psychiatric wards and hospitals. We also believe that forcing someone with mental illness into treatment is rare. However, millions of Americans are subjected to psychiatric detention or forced treatment every year. Often well meaning family members are trying to “help,” but end up traumatizing and permanently damaging their loved ones. Join us as investigative journalist Rob Wipond explains how most states have broadened their criteria for psychiatrically detaining someone far beyond “imminent harm” and that as a practical matter, this could happen to a...2023-06-0828 min
Inside Mental HealthThe Rise in Forced Treatment and Abusive Guardianships Part 2There’s a common misconception that, due to asylum closures, only “dangerous” people get committed to a psychiatric wards and hospitals. We also believe that forcing someone with mental illness into treatment is rare. However, millions of Americans are subjected to psychiatric detention or forced treatment every year. Often well meaning family members are trying to “help,” but end up traumatizing and permanently damaging their loved ones. Join us as investigative journalist Rob Wipond explains how most states have broadened their criteria for psychiatrically detaining someone far beyond “imminent harm” and that as a practical matter, this could happen to a...2023-06-0826 minRadically Genuine Podcast with Dr. Roger McFillin80. Your Consent Is Not Required w/ Rob WipondMore law-abiding Americans today are being involuntarily committed and forcibly treated “for their own good” than at any time in history. Rob Wipond’s book, Your Consent Is Not Required 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.Rob Wipond is a freelance journalist and creative nonfiction writer who writes frequently at the interfaces between psychiatry, civil rights, community issues, policing, surveillance and privacy, and social change. His articles have been nominated for sevent...2023-04-131h 17
Not As Crazy As You Think PodcastAn Interview with Author Rob Wipond on His Book, "Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships" (S5, E7)In the episode, "An Interview with Author Rob Wipond on His Book, 'Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships'" (S5, E7), I have the chance to explore my most esteemed topics of psychiatric coercion and forced treatment with one of the major players right now in the field, journalist Rob Wipond. Rob Wipond is a freelance journalist and creative nonfiction writer who writes frequently at the interfaces between psychiatry, civil rights, community issues, policing, surveillance and privacy, and social change. His articles have been nominated for seventeen magazine and...2023-04-101h 42
Madness RadioConsent Not Required | Rob Wipond | Madness RadioRead this book! Is discriminating against people who have — or are labeled with — psychiatric disabilities ever justified? Is denying equality before the law necessary in times of crisis – or does it open the door to widespread abuse and violence? Journalist and community development activist Rob Wipond’s new book Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships is a devastating investigative exposé of the normalized assault, kidnapping, and torture that is forced psychiatric treatment. It is hard to conclude anything other than this abusive practice must be brought to an end. So what can...2023-02-281h 55
Oddball ShowWill Hall: Mad CampJason Wright interviews Will Hall, podcast host and author, about Mad Camp, an amazing gathering happening in 2023. Learn more about how you can get involved from Will himself in this episode of Oddball Show, brought to you by Oddball Foundation, your favorite 501(c)3 for mental health advoacy.Learn More about Oddball Foundationhttps://runsignup.com/DonationWebsite/OddballFoundationhttps://madcamp.net/Will Hallhttps://willhall.net/about/Mad In Americahttps...2023-02-2641 min
Bear Psychology PodcastForced psychiatric confinement – Who is at risk?We may believe that asylums are a thing of the past but practices of enforced psychiatric confinement continue today, much to our surprise. Author Wipond, argues that, now more than ever, North Americans are being forced into treatment and involuntarily committed supposedly "for their own benefit." Rob Wipond’s book “Your Consent Is Not Required” gives us a look into the psychiatric practices of forced interventions still in place today in some private and public mental health facilities. Wipond describes mental health institutions using psychiatric confinement to manage school children; disoriented elderly; quell family conflicts; police...2023-02-241h 01
Make It Plain MIP with Rev. Mark Thompson"Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships"Author Rob Wipond and forced treatment survivor Cindy Hadge of the Wildflower Alliance join.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy2023-02-2256 min
The Unspeakable PodcastThey’re Coming To Take You Away: Rob Wipond On The Ongoing Scourge Of Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Most people associate forcible detentions in psychiatric wards with barbaric practices of the past. But as Canadian investigative journalist Rob Wipond reports in his new book, involuntary psychiatric treatment is all too common today. In Your Consent Is Not Required, Rob shows just how little agency patients often have in their own care and, moreover, how the medical establishment and pharmaceutical industry benefit from as many people as possible being classified as “mental patients.” In this conversation, he talks with Meghan about how psychiatric interventions can be weaponized against patients, why therapies such as electroshock remain so widely used, and...2023-02-201h 10
The Tyee: Audio EditionA Call to Reform Involuntary Care. With Personal RootsMore British Columbians are being involuntarily detained now than ever before, according to new government data. @moirawyton interviews Rob Wipond, “Your Consent Is Not Required” author, who says involuntary treatment isn’t the solution many think it is.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/02/17/Reform-Involuntary-Care-Personal-Roots-Rob-Wipond/2023-02-1700 min
ReThreading MadnessYour Consent is Not Required with Rob Wipond Part 2On 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 this part, they discuss how the psychiatric industry is being used to punish whistleblowers, political advocates, and within our daily lives with disgruntled employers and unhappy spouses. A mental health wellness call can too easily result in involuntary commitments and being drugged even for the sanist among us. And, then that commitment however wrong becomes a stain on the person's record and can impact him long after. From...2023-02-1459 min
ReThreading MadnessYour Consent is Not Required with Rob Wipond: Part 1Part 1Rob talks with Bernadine about his book "Your Consent is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment and Abusive Guardianships" and about the fallible nature of diagnoses, psychiatric medications and treatment along with the inherent problems that occur in the mental health industry that leave psychiatric survivors victimized and trapped for a long time. One of the stories he shares in this book is about Vince Geisler, who was laid off over the phone and I'm not going to read the whole story verbatim, but I hope to give you a good sense...2023-02-0956 min
Access Essential Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceYour Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships by Rob WipondPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646577 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships Author: Rob Wipond Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Asylums are supposed to be in the past. However, though the buildings were closed, many of the practices lived on. In fact, more law-abiding Americans today are being involuntarily committed and forcibly treated 'for their own good' than at any time...2023-02-0730 min