{"product_id":"your-consent-is-not-required-the-rise-in-psychiatric-detentions-forced-treatment-and-abusive-guardianships-9781637741481","title":"Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships","description":"\u003cb\u003eAsylums are supposed to be in the past. However, though the buildings were closed, many of the practices lived on.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn fact, more law-abiding Americans today are being involuntarily committed and forcibly treated \"for their own good\" than at any time in history.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the first work of investigative journalism in decades to give a comprehensive view into contemporary psychiatric incarceration and forced interventions, \u003ci\u003eYour Consent Is Not Required\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDriven 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: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cli\u003emanage school children and the elderly\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003equell family conflicts\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003epolice the streets \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003econtrol people in shelters, community living, and prisons\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003efraudulently increase hospital profits\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\"resolve\" workplace disagreements\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003edetain protesters and discredit whistleblowers\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThoroughly researched, with alarming true stories and hard data from the US and Canada, Rob Wipond's \u003ci\u003eYour Consent Is Not Required\u003c\/i\u003e builds an unassailable case for greater transparency, vigilance, and change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Benbella Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781637741481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Rob Wipond","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42531047014581,"sku":"9781637741481","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_9e48dc26-421f-4afc-a282-da810d8401d3.jpg?v=1669735600","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/your-consent-is-not-required-the-rise-in-psychiatric-detentions-forced-treatment-and-abusive-guardianships-9781637741481","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}