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Experts by Experience in the context of mental health are those who have personal experience of using, or caring for someone who uses, mental health and social care services. How do people with lived experience of mental illness contribute to scientific knowledge and personal growth? This volume comprises three distinct philosophical perspectives focused on specific theoretical and practical challenges for theorizing expertise by experience in philosophical mental health research: the idea of subjectivity in 'lived experience' and the issue of scientific validation, the prospects of shared meaning-making and the problem of injustice in 'co-production', and the philosophical role of values in navigating difference and value disagreement in psychiatry.
List of contents
Introduction: What is the Role of Lived Experience in Research? Anna Bergqvist, Alana Wilde, and David Crepaz-Keay; Part One: Voicing Lived Experience as Scientific Knowledge; 1. Art and the Lived Experience of Pain Panayiota Vassilopoulou; 2. A Wide-Enough Range of 'Test Environments' for Psychiatric Disabilities Sofia Jeppsson; 3. Self-Diagnosis in Psychiatry and the Distribution of Social Resources Sam Fellowes; 4. In Defence of the Concept of Mental Illness Zsuzsanna Chappell; Part Two: Co-Producing Meaning; 5. 'The Hermeneutic Problem of Psychiatry' and the Co-production of Meaning in Psychiatric Healthcare Lucienne Spencer and Ian James Kidd; 6. Co-Production and Structural Oppression in Public Mental Health Alana Wilde; 7. Co-Production is Good but Other Things are Good Too Edward Hardcourt and David Crepaz-Keay; Part Three: Navigating Values and Difference; 8. Shared Decision-Making and Relational Moral Agency: On Seeing the Person Behind the 'Expert by Experience' in Mental Health Research Anna Bergqvist; 9. Mad Activism and Reconciliation Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed; 10. Values-Based Practice: A Theory-Practice Dynamic for Navigating Values and Difference in Health Care K. W. M. Fulford and Ashok Handa.
