S2 Episode 2: Precisely No

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08/30/22 • 24 min

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What is the history of crisis hotlines? What impact does police involvement have on the person perceived to be in distress? In this episode we continue to explore Cassidy’s story and speak to Hannah Zeavin and Jamie Livingston to try and better understand how these systems evolved and how they could be different.

Hannah Zeavin:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/distance-cure

https://slate.com/technology/2022/04/crisis-lifelines-surveillance-geolocation-algorithms.html

http://somatosphere.net/2020/the-third-choice-suicide-hotlines-psychiatry-and-the-police.html/

Jamie Livingston:

https://justmentalhealth.ca/

Episode transcript: sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committables2-transcripts/2022/8/30/s2-episode-2-precisely-no

This episode of Committable was produced by Michelle Stockman, Cassidy Wilson, Jim McQuaid and Jesse Mangan.

https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committable

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

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

Hannah Zeavin:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/distance-cure

https://slate.com/technology/2022/04/crisis-lifelines-surveillance-geolocation-algorithms.html

http://somatosphere.net/2020/the-third-choice-suicide-hotlines-psychiatry-and-the-police.html/

Jamie Livingston:

https://justmentalhealth.ca/

Episode transcript: sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committables2-transcripts/2022/8/30/s2-episode-2-precisely-no

This episode of Committable was produced by Michelle Stockman, Cassidy Wilson, Jim McQuaid and Jesse Mangan.

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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S2 Episode 1: This is Not Care

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Cassidy Wilson called a crisis hotline to ask for help. What she received was multiple police officers coming to her home, handcuffing her, and forcibly taking her to an ER for evaluation. That evaluation led to almost a week of involuntary detention.

In Season 2 of Committable we explore Cassidy’s experiences and continue our journey to deconstruct the systems of psychiatric detention that make situations like this, and the trauma that they can cause, far too common.

Cassidy’s article: https://thechicagomaroon.com/28693/viewpoints/op-ed/forefront-medicine-summer-involuntary-hospitalization/

Episode transcript: sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committables2-transcripts/2022/8/23/s2episode-1transcript

This episode of Committable was produced by Michelle Stockman, Cassidy Wilson, Jim McQuaid and Jesse Mangan.

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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S2 Episode 3: Hot Potato

Cassidy was handcuffed by police and brought to an ER where she was detained for evaluation. Part of that evaluation included a risk assessment, a clinical tool used to help navigate complex decisions about whether or not to involuntarily detain someone. But what is a risk assessment? How reliable are these tools and why do systems of involuntary detention seem to be built around them?

In this episode we speak to Tim Wand and Morgan Shields to try and better understand risk assessments and what role they play in psychiatric holds and civil commitments.

Morgan Shields:

https://brownschool.wustl.edu/Faculty-and-Research/Pages/Morgan-Shields.aspx

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2788761