E61: Rob Wipond

Rob Wipond is an independent investigative journalist, who reports and comments on community issues. He’s also the author of Your Consent is not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships, a work of investigative journalism that gives a comprehensive view into contemporary civil psychiatric incarceration and forced interventions, exposing 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 even electroshock treatments. You can find the book on Rob’s website, Amazon, or at your local book sellers. In our conversation we discussed theater, poetry, acting, Canada, the United States, journalism, involuntary commitments, Carl Jung, Stanislav Grof, Robert Whitaker, psychology, North America, money, fraud, forced psychiatric intervention, difficult times, electric shock therapy, psychiatric drugs, depression, mortality, stories, transference, projection, frame of references, pathology, numbing out, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, authority, authoritarianism, politics, polarization, resistance, forced injections, fear mongering, educational systems, schools, institutions, mental health laws, policing, control, nursing homes, long-term care, economic equity, wages, housing costs, the World Health Organization, acknowledging there is a problem, mutual aid, and human connection. Episode Details: Guest Name: Rob Wipond Website: https://robwipond.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/robwipond Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RobWipondAuthor Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RobWipond/featured Gong Sound: 68261__juskiddink__bell4.wav Other Content from the Explorer Poet Download my latest writing: Myth for Modern Men: A Letter to My Son Where to find The EXPLORER POET Podcast: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theexplorerpoet/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheExplorerPoet Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIQxs0F0mGoEJYNNJx4ph5g Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Z9WKzUIWbq5qOJE1zmRJQ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-explorer-poet-podcast/id1621189025 Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/ead95bf9-2f53-4965-8c29-b787a198891c/the-explorer-poet-podcast Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy85MmM5ZTY5NC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw?sa=X&ved=0CAMQ4aUDahcKEwjA6v_KhPn3AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQLA To hear more, visit theexplorerpoet.substack.com