From Patients to People: Disability Rights and Survivor Narratives in Mental Health
Beyond Individual Compassion: Mad Experience, Disability Rights and Uncomfortable Truths
Speaker: Hel Spandler
Talk Description
Hel Spandler will speak about experiences and situations which complicate not only traditional psychiatric models, but also alternative models and formulations too (e.g. Social Model of Disability or Trauma Informed care).
Hel will centre the importance of building compassionate systems which centre mad-identified people’s own lived experience and priorities, asking
“What matters to you?”
rather than
“What’s wrong with you?”
or
“What happened to you?”
Hel will also talk about developing alternative ways to express, share and listen to Mad people’s experiences and critiques (through things like zines, magazines and healing circles).
Speaker Bio
Hel Spandler
Hel Spandler is Professor of Mental Health at the University of Lancashire, UK; Editor-in-Chief of Asylum: the radical mental health magazine (www.asylummagazine.org); Principal Investigator of the Madzines research project (www.madzines.org); and the co-lead editor of the International Journal of Mad Studies (www.imsj.org).
Hel has published extensively about mental health history, politics and practice.
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