I've launched PsychForce Report on Substack, where I will be tracking and reporting on the expanding uses of coercion, incarceration and force by mental health systems. Subscribe and get PsychForce Report regularly in your email inbox! The vast majority of the content is free -- but there are also opportunities to provide financial support for
Jesse Mangan, host of the Committable podcast, joins me with the Medicare For All podcast team. "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
Dr. Roger McFillin hosts Rob for a second time on his Radically Genuine Podcast to discuss the dramatically rising rates of unwanted call tracing and policing interventions on 988 callers. "We cannot consent unless we are informed. In this episode I welcome back Rob Wipond, a freelance journalist known for his work on psychiatry, civil
During and after the first discussion about 988 hosted by Wildflower Alliance in January of 2024, I, Jess Stohlman-Rainey, Emily Wu Truong, and Sera Davidow received many questions we did not have time to answer. So, six months later, we did a follow-up discussion, including newly obtained data and insights about how frequent call tracing
On Rethreading Madness, radio host Bernadine Fox and I discuss an educational brochure being handed out to people in British Columbia educating them about the BC Mental Health Act -- where a lot of the information in the brochure is wrong, and sometimes dangerously so. Listen here. And on an earlier date, we discussed some
