From monologue to dialogue in mental health care research: reflections on a collaborative research process. Issue 8 (13th September 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tomlinson, Peter; De Ruysscher, Clara
• Is Part Of: Disability & society. Volume 35:Issue 8(2020)
• Page Start: 1274
• Page End: 1289
• Publication Date: 2020-09-13
• Subjects: dialogical research -- epistemic violence -- bricolage -- experiential knowledge -- co-production; People with disabilities -- Periodicals; People with disabilities -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Special education -- Periodicals; Rehabilitation -- Periodicals; 362.4
• DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2019.1680345
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0968-7599

Abstract

Abstract: In today's recovery-oriented mental health care practice and research, the perspectives of service users are considered of great importance. However, academic research into mental health care still mainly produces a scientific monologue in which the researcher (without lived experience) has the last word about the subject's experiences. A fundamental question that remains underexposed in mental health care research is one of relational ethics: how can these monological dynamics be reshaped into a real dialogue between people with and without lived experience? The aim of the current paper is to reflect on the research process that we, an academic researcher and an expert by experience, have conducted in a co-creative way in order to draw a number of key lessons on dialogical research ethics.