Mad Students in the Social Work Classroom? Notes From the Beginnings of an Inquiry
In: Journal of progressive human services, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 209-222
ISSN: 1540-7616
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In: Journal of progressive human services, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 209-222
ISSN: 1540-7616
In: Journal of literary and cultural disability studies, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 255-271
ISSN: 1757-6466
In: Curriculum inquiry: a journal from The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Band 49, Heft 4, S. 485-502
ISSN: 1467-873X
In: Studies in social justice, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 85-101
ISSN: 1911-4788
This paper describes a community event organized in response to the appropriation and overreliance on the psychiatric patient "personal story" within mental health organizations. The sharing of experiences through stories by individuals who self-identify as having "lived experience" has been central to the history of organizing for change in and outside of the psychiatric system. However, in the last decade, personal stories have increasingly been used by the psychiatric system to bolster research, education, and fundraising interests. We explore how personal stories from consumer/survivors have been harnessed by mental health organizations to further their interests and in so doing have shifted these narrations from "agents of change" towards one of "disability tourism" or "patient porn." We mark the ethical dilemmas of narrative cooptation and consumption, and query how stories of resistance can be reclaimed not as personal recovery narratives but rather as a tool for socio-political change.