PsychForce Report TV: Fight for Psychiatric Disability Rights
How Protection & Advocacy organizations could collaborate better with people with lived experience
Every step and lurch towards broader oppression of civil rights in society often leads to even worse oppression of those people labeled with psychiatric disabilities and subjected to involuntary commitment. Upholding democratic values requires accountability, vigilance, and engagement.
In episode 6 of PsychForce Report TV, Jesse Mangan and I discuss the recent article I published on Mad in America, The Fight Against Involuntary Commitment: Are Protection & Advocacy Organizations Fulfilling Their Mission? We look at the frustrations and challenges for people with lived experience who want to resist expansions to involuntary commitment, and some of the constructive collaborative efforts emerging between P&As and their advisory councils.
Click on the video image above, or on the direct link to the YouTube video here.