Episode 33: Brittney Spears & Conservatorships: The good, the bad & the ugly!

2021-07-30

Welcome to The Barrier Breakdown: Disrupting Mental Health! This week we are joined by Dr. Jacob M. Appel. Dr. Appel is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he serves as Director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry and Assistant Director of Academy for Medicine & the Humanities. He is currently co-chair of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry's Committee on Psychiatry and the Law and a judge for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Awards. In this episode we discuss the practice of conservatorships, recently brought into the public eye by media coverage of Brittney Spears' rejection of her own. Dr. Appel covers why conservatorships ...

Welcome to The Barrier Breakdown: Disrupting Mental Health!

This week we are joined by Dr. Jacob M. Appel. Dr. Appel is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he serves as Director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry and Assistant Director of Academy for Medicine & the Humanities. He is currently co-chair of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry's Committee on Psychiatry and the Law and a judge for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Awards.

In this episode we discuss the practice of conservatorships, recently brought into the public eye by media coverage of Brittney Spears' rejection of her own. Dr. Appel covers why conservatorships are used in the first place, how they can go wrong, and what can be done to prevent their misuse.

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