Book review: Victoria writer takes on medical model psychiatry and its abuses in Your Consent is Not Required

By Rob Wipond | Ben Bella Books, Inc., 2023

$39.95 | 305 pages.

“Overwhelming evidence from the European Disability Forum, Mental Health Europe and other organizations and growing consensus within the United Nations including at the World Health Organization, show that forced admission to medical institutions and coercive treatments in institutions will bring harmful effects such as pain, trauma, humiliation, shame, stigmatisation and fear to people with psychosocial disabilities.” The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,  28 May, 2021