Epistemic Injustice and Mental Health System Survivor Knowledge

This session will draw on theories of epistemic injustice and Tamsin's PhD research to outline some of the difficulties survivors of the mental health system can face when trying to articulate their experiences and/or to share this with others.

Tamsin will then cover some of the ways survivors have responded to these challenges, identifying the resources survivors use to make sense of and communicate experience and how those can vary in relation to neurological or psychological differences.

The session will conclude by thinking about what can build or diminish survivors’ confidence in their ability to make sense of experience and how we can create supportive contexts for the sharing of survivor knowledge and experience.

Tamsin and Sarah will then be available for questions and discussion.

This event will take place in room 2.55 in Edinburgh Futures Institute.

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Edinburgh Futures Institute, The University of Edinburgh, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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