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  • Chapter 13 - Subjectivity, Citizenship and Mental Health: UK Service User Perspectives

  • from Part II - The Cogwheels of Change
  • Edited by George Ikkos, Nick Bouras, King's College London
  • Book:
    Mind, State and Society
    Published online:
    17 June 2021
    Print publication:
    24 June 2021, pp 118-127
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    The user/survivor movement represents a most significant development in mental health and therefore demands careful and serious examination, particularly in its broader social, political, policy, cultural and economic contexts. Generations of psychiatrists have not been educated about the activism and achievements within the user/survivor movements, which left many practitioners ignorant of the autonomy and agency achieved over the past fifty years. The UK mental health service users/survivor movement is one of the ‘new social movements’, including black civil rights, women’s, LGBTQ and grey power that emerged globally in the second half of the twentieth century, largely based on shared identity and common experiences of oppression. The survivor movement, like other service user movements, was facilitated by the political shift to the right from the late 1970s which was associated with a renewed emphasis on the market, devaluing of the state and growing government rhetoric for consumer rights in public services.