Episode 12, Pt 2: The Human Cost of Forced Treatment

psychophobia* podcast · Nov 3, 2026 · 44m · transcript

“We’ve got to rebuild our communities from the ground up, grassroots up. And make space for screaming with each other.”

— Rob Wipond, Psychophobia, Episode 12

— —

Rob Wipond & Dr. Michael R. Montgomery confront the disturbing contradictions of a psychiatric system in which care can become coercion, distress can be treated as madness, and the right to refuse treatment can disappear beneath the authority of medical judgment. Drawing on Wipond’s investigations into involuntary commitment, the conversation exposes the uneasy relationship between psychiatric power, institutional profit, and the…