Exploring the case for truth and reconciliation in mental health services

What is it about?

This article explores a transitional justice approach to acknowledging the hurts/abuse/harm of the mental health system (and psychiatry) - including mental health service users/survivors of the mental health system as well as workers. It argues this may help build better alliances between workers and service users and help to transform the mental health system.

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Why is it important?

A truth and reconciliation process has never happened in the context of psychiatry. Whilst users/survivors of psychiatry have often called for public apologies for psychiatric treatment, this is the first peer reviewed article on the subject. It is part of a broader movement for social change in mental health services.