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‘Not as Crazy as You Think’ Hosts Rob
Jen Gaita Siciliano added a lot of dimension to her interview with me by sharing her own stories and perspectives from being forcibly treated. Click here to listen to the Not As Crazy as You Think podcast.
Christopher Lane at Psychology Today Reviews Your Consent Is Not Required
From the “Side Effects” column at Psychology Today: “…timely… exhaustive… powerful… Wipond’s comprehensive study unearths health and social services replete with poor-to-dreadful outcomes, lax oversight, and protocols seemingly rigged against those most in need: the vulnerable, destitute, and marginalized.” Click here to read the whole review of Your Consent Is Not Required.
The Ashland Source Reports on My Visit to Ohio
The Mental Health & Recovery Board of Ashland County, Ohio brought me in to speak at their annual conference remembering psychiatric civil rights activist Pat Risser — the recording may be posted online soon. But the local Ashland Source also reported on the reading and discussion at the public library before the conference, and published an op-ed of mine about the situation in Ohio. Some state legislators have been pushing a law to expand the number of people being involuntarily committed–even while they have no idea at all how many people in Ohio are currently being committed.
Peterborough Examiner Story — Where Rob Grew Up
Joanne Culley interviews me for the Peterborough Examiner, the newspaper that was a daily feature of my family home as a kid. Click here to read (subscriber paywall). By the way, if you were to delve into the Examiner’s archives, you’d also find stories of me scoring goals in peewee hockey and of saving someone from nearly drowning–true story! :-)
Peter McCully of Black Press Interviews Rob
In a special book club episode, long-time Black Press Media journalist and editor-turned-podcaster Peter McCully interviews me for the “Today in BC” podcast. After author Kate Gately, our interview begins at about 12:50 and continues for 13 minutes. Click here to listen.
Vancouver Sun Review of Your Consent Is Not Required
“Deeply researched, lucidly written… an important contribution to public policy debate and a profoundly moving, must-read call for human dignity and humane treatment for all. Highly recommended.” –Vancouver Sun
Click here to read the entire review.
PS I’m actually a “former” Victoria writer but, you know, headlines…
Do Clients in AOT Programs Truly Feel “Satisfied” and “Empowered” by Being Forcibly Drugged? — A Critical Analysis of a Treatment Advocacy Center Report GalleryDo Clients in AOT Programs Truly Feel “Satisfied” and “Empowered” by Being Forcibly Drugged? — A Critical Analysis of a Treatment Advocacy Center Report
Do Clients in AOT Programs Truly Feel “Satisfied” and “Empowered” by Being Forcibly Drugged? — A Critical Analysis of a Treatment Advocacy Center Report
Do Clients in AOT Programs Truly Feel “Satisfied” and “Empowered” by Being Forcibly Drugged? -- A Critical Analysis of a 2023 Treatment Advocacy Center Report.
Jesse Mangan and Rob Wipond Talk on the Committable Podcast
Jesse Mangan digresses from his current run of discussing mental health laws state by state, and talks with me about my book Your Consent Is Not Required on his Committable podcast. Click here to listen.
Madness Radio Brings Rob Wipond and Will Hall Together
The one and only Madness Radio brings Rob and the inimitable psychiatric survivor and counselor Will Hall together for an epic two-hour exploration of the themes and issues in Your Consent Is Not Required. (Also a one-hour version available.) Click here to listen.
From Madness Radio: Read this book! Can there ever be any justification for discriminating against people who have — or are labeled with — psychiatric disabilities? Is denying equality before the law based on a psychiatric diagnosis always unacceptable, unnecessary, and abusive? 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,
CBC Radio’s Paul Karchut Interviews Rob Wipond on Daybreak Alberta
In only 13 minutes, CBC Radio’s Paul Karchut and Rob cover a lot of ground on issues such as the expanding uses of psychiatric power, what qualifies as “insight,” physical detention versus invasive medical interventions into the brain, and a recent precedent legal case that got the Canadian province of Alberta’s mental health laws thrown out as “overbroad.” Click here to listen.
Rob Wipond joins “Make It Plain with Rev. Mark Thompson”
Rob and Cindy Hadge, a Wildflower Alliance trainer and psychiatric survivor, join long-time political, civil rights and human rights activist and organizer Reverend Mark Thompson for a discussion about the expanding uses of mental health laws across society, what it’s like to be locked up and forcibly treated in America today, and the plans in New York City to more aggressively hospitalize people who do not have homes. Click here to listen to the podcast.
Trauma Psychologist Anna Baranowsky Interviews Rob Wipond
Rob Wipond talks with psychologist Anna Baranowsky on her Bear Psychology program on Toronto’s Reality Radio 101. Click here to listen online.
The Tyee Interview: A Call to Reform Involuntary Care. With Personal Roots
‘Your Consent Is Not Required’ author Rob Wipond on his father’s torment, state power, anti-psychotic drugs, and more. A Tyee interview.
Rob was interviewed by Moira Wyton of the online magazine The Tyee. Click here to read the complete interview.
Meghan Daum Interviews Rob Wipond on The Unspeakable Podcast
Listen to “They’re Coming to Take You Away” on The Unspeakable: Click here.
About the Interviewer Meghan Daum:
Meghan Daum is the author of five books, including The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through The New Culture Wars, which The New York Times named a Notable Book of 2019. Her last book was the collection of original essays The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, which won the 2015 PEN Center USA Award for creative nonfiction. She is also the editor of the New York Times bestseller Selfish, Shallow & Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not To Have Kids. Her other books include the essay collection My Misspent Youth, the novel The Quality of Life Report, and Life Would