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Land A Acknowle ledgements

Native-Land.CA Arapahoe Cheyenne Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute) Očeti Šakówiŋ (Sioux)

A History of Coercion

Mental Health in Modernity

• Dark Secrets
• Apocalyptic

Visions

Uneasiness

• Discipline
• Separation

The Great Confinement

• De-

institutionalization

• Treatment & cures

Medicalization

• Psychoanalysis
• Brokenness

Moralization

• “For their own

good”

• Prevention
• Imminent Risk

Risk Management

State Sanctioned Coercion

Danger to Self Danger to Others Grave Disability

Suicide & Rationality

Sanity > Insanity Sane People Define Reality Sane People Want to Live Prolong Life at All Costs Wanting to Die Is Insane We Must Intervene Survivors are Thankful

Not Limited to Involuntary Treatment

Threat of involuntary treatment Pressure from family Access to basic needs Access to things we want Safety plans and contracts Lack of other options Pressure from providers Social incentivizing Punishment avoidance

Impact of Coercion

Coercion Permeates Our Work

Research

• IRB
• Positivism
• Behaviorist

Metrics

• Authoritarian
• Epistemic

injustice Prevention

• Gatekeeper
• Surveillance
• Indoctrination

into epistemic injustice

• Individual

Pathology

• Screening

Intervention

• 911/Welfare

Checks

• Assessment
• Competency
• Bundling

services

• Involuntary

Treatment

• Safety Plans

and Contracts Postvention

• Used as

evidence for the need for coercion

• Censorship
• Contagion
• Drive toward

coercive intervention Safe Messaging

• Good survivor

narratives

• Assumption of

fragility

• Censorship
• Contagion
• Drive toward

coercive intervention

• Pathologizing

Liberating Suicidology

Imagining a Future without Coercion

Suicidology

Reparations Departure from Positivism and Empiricism Divesting from Pathology Decentralizing Behaviorist Measures Center Lived Experience Focus on Moving Toward Shared Power