Psychiatric Incarceration | Cassie Wilson | Madness Radio

When Cassie Wilson experienced mental distress, she called her college’s clinic – and armed police came to her home, handcuffed her, and locked her up for two weeks. Cassie, a University of Chicago undergraduate majoring in neuroscience and human rights, discuses how stress from homework and an internship landed her incarcerated as a psychiatric patient: coerced to take drugs, humiliated, and subjected to gaslighting – and then made to pay the bill, all in the name of care. Co-hosts Jacks McNamara and Will Hall join Cassie in exploring the violent business as usual of psychiatry, an abusive carceral system that normalizes oppression and dehumanization. Cassie wrote about her experience in a powerful Chicago Maroon school newspaper essay “At the Forefront of Medicine: My Summer Involuntary Hospitalization”. You can contact her at cassidyw312 (at ) (gmail) dot com.