HeyJaredPsychForce Report
Tracking the expanding uses of coercion, incarceration, and force by mental health care systems.
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Key Court Settlement Paves the Way to Longer Psychiatric Incarcerations (opens the original)
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We could declare that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), yet again, has been improperly “weaponized” by the Trump Administration to achieve illegal goals. But that makes what happened this week sound, oddly, grander than it actually was. More accurately, under Trump, the DOJ is becoming pathetic—a corrupted shell of its former self after the firing and departures of thousands of qualified attorneys, and all the more dangerous for its lack of moral spine in the face of rising authoritarianism.
Defending Against the Assault on Community Integration (opens the original)
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The Trump Administration’s strange new Department of Justice (DOJ) has suddenly and completely reversed course from decades of precedent, and has launched an assault on the laws that have helped tens of thousands of people get released from unnecessary long-term psychiatric institutionalization. These same laws have for decades buttressed the autonomy and independence of all disabled people. Disability rights groups are organizing to fight back.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="
Good Riddance, "Deemed Consent" (opens the original)
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(1900 words/8.5 minutes reading)I cut my teeth as a young journalist while working amid what has long been the most aggressive involuntary commitment legal regime in North America. In making their laws more aggressive, many other Canadian provinces and U.S. states have, over the decades, been following British Columbia’s (BC’s) legislative lead. The first time I learned of Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC), America’s most influential pro-force lobby group, it was because TAC was publicly praising
Psychocracy is Spreading (opens the original)
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The United Kingdom’s Freedom of Information Act (Section 38) allows government agencies to refuse to release information to the public, if that information “would, or would be likely to endanger the… mental health of any individual.”The first time I read that (it was introduced in 2005), since few others seemed to raising a ruckus, I assumed my anxieties about it had to be overblown, and soon forgot about it. But recently I noticed that, more than a decade after its introduction, the UK Informat
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