Mad in America

The conference will focus on ‘shifting the narrative’ on mental health from the psychiatric disease model to the relational/recovery model, and on the challenges that are stacked against that eventuality. The challenges and resistances to progressive change are of an ideological, macro-economic nature guaranteeing a protracted and difficult struggle for recovery advocates. We have invited a slate of exceptional thinkers to examine the economic motivations and the ideologies behind the opposition to recovery transformation, to consider the intergenerational and socio-economic roots of ‘mental illness’, and to offer positive perspectives on working for social change/justice within mental health and throughout society.