From Truthout. “Involuntary psychiatric treatment is a cornerstone of Donald Trump’s mental health policy, and liberal governors like Gavin Newsom, Kathy Hochul, and Wes Moore have also increasingly embraced coercive approaches to mental health care. Yet a central question often goes unaddressed by the lawmakers putting forth these policies: What happens when we force people to accept psychiatric care via court order?
In this exclusive Truthout interview, we speak to Dr. Nev Jones, whose team at the University of Pittsburgh’s PathLab was a co-lead investigator on an evaluation. Jones, who is open about her own lived experiences of psychosis, discusses why she and fellow researchers are fighting back now.
