Mad in America

Following on from two previous conferences into how whiteness and race equality into research into diagnosis and practice can lead to a co-production than can effectively challenge the definition of ‘mental disorder’ in terms of the current review of the 1983/2007 Mental Health Act.

The focus is on how survivors, practitioners and researchers across the colour line can produce a definition that addresses equality in the mental health legislation in the areas of access, detention, and discharge from a new perspective to coproduction.