Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Experts by Experience in the context of mental health are those who have personal experience of using, or of caring for someone who uses, health, 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 theorising about expertise by experience in the philosophy of mental health research: the idea of subjectivity in 'lived experience' and the issue of scientific validation, the prospects of shared meaningmaking, and the problem of injustice in 'co-production', and the philosophical role of values in navigating difference and value disagreement in psychiatry.The philosophical concepts of 'expertise by experience', that is, expertise based on one's personal experience of some condition, and 'participatory research' are rapidly expanding areas of interdisciplinary research.Both concepts are increasingly present in medicine and mental health, and link academics, clinical practitioners, charitable foundations,
Authors: Anna Bergqvist, David Crepaz-Keay, Alana Wilde
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4387118661