Mad pride: Reflections on sociopolitical identity and mental diversity in the context of culturally competent psychiatric care

摘要

Although the consumer/survivor/ex-patient (c/s/x) movement has influenced mental health services and human rights discourse for several decades, the broader movement's heterogeneity, and the relevance of its deeper sociopolitical implications to the everyday practice of mental health professionals, have gone largely unexplored in the interdisciplinary psychiatric literature (for exceptions, see Coleman, 2008; Farber, 2012; Lewis, 2006; Morrison, 2005). The purpose of this commentary is to provide a brief overview of the movement to de-pathologize unusual mental states and to discuss implications for mental health nurses and other providers.