When opposites attract?

Abstract

How far is our position within the mental health system ‐ as service user, survivor, carer or practitioner, for example ‐ fixed and defines what we can achieve? Is ‘expertise by experience’ something we all have and can share, irrespective of position, even when it may differ dramatically? Toby Williamson, previously head of policy at the Mental Health Foundation and an experienced practitioner, and David Crepaz‐Keay, senior policy advisor responsible for public and patient involvement at the Foundation and well known particularly within the survivor movement, debate these issues in an open and frank exchange of emails.

Citation

Williamson, T. and Crepaz‐Keay, D. (2006), "When opposites attract?", A Life in the Day, Vol. 10 No. 3, pp. 3-7. https://doi.org/10.1108/13666282200600022