Co-Production in Mental Health as a Path to Race Equality – Mind in Camden
10th February 2022
10- 3:30 PM
There are a limited number of free places for voice-hearers and people with lived experience.Otherwise a sliding scale starting at £50.00 Reduced Price
Facilitated by Dr Colin King
Part One is a first person narrative exploring the Lived Experience and two-sided world of a Gemini: The frontstage, first world, of a diagnosed black, male schizophrenic and the backstage second world of a black mental health practitioner, commissioner & teacher.
Part Two examines how these worlds are informed historically. Using the image of the travelling escalator, we’ll evaluate the ways that European diagnostic & legal frameworks and theories of eugenics emerge from the period of slavery, and how they influence values and behaviours. And also examine:—
• How race emerges in parallel with the conceptual, philosophical and psychiatric forms of whiteness that define schizophrenia
• How black men (currently over-represented in the mental health system) are exposed to forms of whiteness and intrusive models of ‘drapetomania’ in European psychiatry • How this produces racialised compliance inside the family, school and prison system”
