S1 Episode 1: Section 12

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03/17/21 • 37 min

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Committable

Could you be committed?

Host Jesse Mangan intertwines personal experiences and interviews with attorneys and family members to try and figure out what happened twenty years ago when he was involuntarily committed by something called a Section 12.

Guests in this episode are:

Steve Schwartz: https://www.centerforpublicrep.org/

Bob Fleischner: https://www.centerforpublicrep.org/

Karen Owen Talley: https://www.publiccounsel.net/

Tom Mangan

Committable Contributors for this episode are:

Michelle Stockman

Episode transcript: https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committables1-episode-1transcript/2021/3/16/s1-episode-1-section-12-transcript

Committable is produced by Jesse Mangan, Jim McQuaid and Michelle Stockman.

https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committable

All music is from the song Reasonable by Christopher G. Brown.

https://christophergbrown.bandcamp.com/track/reasonable

Could you be committed?

Guests in this episode are:

Steve Schwartz: https://www.centerforpublicrep.org/

Bob Fleischner: https://www.centerforpublicrep.org/

Karen Owen Talley: https://www.publiccounsel.net/

Tom Mangan

Committable Contributors for this episode are:

Michelle Stockman

Episode transcript: https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committables1-episode-1transcript/2021/3/16/s1-episode-1-section-12-transcript

Committable is produced by Jesse Mangan, Jim McQuaid and Michelle Stockman.

https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committable

All music is from the song Reasonable by Christopher G. Brown.

https://christophergbrown.bandcamp.com/track/reasonable

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Season One Trailer

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Committable is a podcast about involuntary commitments. We focus on stories from people with lived experience as a window into complex conversations with attorneys, physicians, psychologists and more.

Trailer transcript: https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committabletrailertranscript

Committable is produced by Jesse Mangan, Jim McQuaid and Michelle Stockman.

https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committable

All music is from the song Reasonable by Christopher G. Brown.

https://christophergbrown.bandcamp.com/track/reasonable

Next Episode

S1 Episode 2: Going Home

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What happens to the community?

Host Jesse Mangan interviews family members, friends and clinical psychologist Pat Corrigan to try and understand how involuntary commitments can impact communities around the person committed.

Guests in this episode are:

Pat Corrigan:

http://www.comingoutproudprogram.org/

http://www.stigmaandempowerment.org/

Tom Mangan

Jean Forward

Susan Mangan: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-two-track-mind/id1024725485

Steve Brown

Committable Contributors for this episode are:

Brian Patrick Williams: https://bravelybrian.com/

Episode transcript: https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committables1-episode-1transcript/2021/3/22/s1-episode-2-going-home

Committable is produced by Jesse Mangan, Jim McQuaid and Michelle Stockman.