Service user involvement, authority and the ‘expert-by-experience’ in mental health
By Tehseen Noorani. 2013
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This article re-examines the politics of engagement of the UK mental health service user and survivor movement by focusing upon the mental health ‘expert-by-experience’. Using qualitative data, I illustrate how the service user and survivor movement is able to draw upon an experiential authority that is rooted in practices of self-help and peer-support. I do this by bringing an experimentalist reading of self-help and peer-support practices into dialogue with a model of traditional authority. As such, the personal can be linked up to the political in ways that emphasise the value of self-help and support practices as forms of political participation, while highlighting modes of engagement that are predicated on the capacities, rather than the needs, of the movement.
Subfields: Education, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Survivor research and Mad Studies: the role and value of experiential knowledge in mental health research (2017, background): “Some writers on the broader history of self-help and mutual aid highlight the role of self-help/peer support in the formation of experiential knowledge as a challenge to professional, scientific knowledge (Borkman 1990; Noorani 2013).”