About Rob...

Rob Wipond is a freelance investigative journalist who writes frequently about the interfaces between psychiatry, civil rights, community issues, policing, surveillance and privacy, and social change.

His articles have been nominated for seventeen magazine and journalism awards in science, law, business, and community issues.

He’s the author of the book Your Consent is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships, an investigation of people's experiences of involuntary psychiatric interventions and review of the science, laws, financial interests, and cultural politics behind the expanding uses of mental health law powers in the U.S. and Canada today.