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| Id | 897 | |
| Author | Blencowe C., Brigstocke J., Noorani T. | |
| Title | Engines of alternative objectivity: Re-articulating the nature and value of participatory mental health organisations with the Hearing Voices Movement and Stepping Out Theatre Company | |
| Reference | Blencowe C., Brigstocke J., Noorani T.; Engines of alternative objectivity: Re-articulating the nature and value of participatory mental health organisations with the Hearing Voices Movement and Stepping Out Theatre Company ;Health (United Kingdom) vol:22.0 issue: 3.0 page:205.0 |
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| Abstract | Through two case studies, the Hearing Voices Movement and Stepping Out Theatre Company, we demonstrate how successful participatory organisations can be seen as ‘engines of alternative objectivity’ rather than as the subjective other to objective, biomedical science. With the term ‘alternative objectivity’, we point to collectivisations of experience that are different to biomedical science but are nonetheless forms of objectivity. Taking inspiration from feminist theory, science studies and sociology of culture, we argue that participatory mental health organisations generate their own forms of objectivity through novel modes of collectivising experience. The Hearing Voices Movement cultivates an ‘activist science’ that generates an alternative objective knowledge through a commitment to experimentation, controlling, testing, recording and sharing experience. Stepping Out distinguishes itself from drama therapy by cultivating an alternative objective culture through its embrace of high production values, material culture, aesthetic standards. A crucial aspect of participatory practice is overcoming alienation, enabling people to get outside of themselves, encounter material worlds and join forces with others. © 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. |
Engines of alternative objectivity: Re-articulating the nature and value of participatory mental health organisations with the Hearing Voices Movement and Stepping Out Theatre Company. In this article first we look to the political tradition of participatory democracy to draw out the relationship between participation and overcoming alienation a relationship that is generally overlooked in the mental health literature. Participation and alienation: the importance of objectivity Participation in mental healthcare is usually interpreted along consumerist or democratic frameworks either as improving services and choices or giving voice to the voiceless. The slow building of a robust and collective evi- dence base for coping with voice-hearing and transforming relationships with voices through methods of self-experimentation and the sharing of stories amongst peers is a very different process of knowledge production than the dominant statistical ones driv- ing biomedical and neuroscientific paradigms. The creation of collective life through theatre is not simply about the emotional close- ness and collective experience of the cast.
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