Service-user & Practitioner Health Activism - Entrar Afuera Barcelona
Dear friends,
A massive thank you to everyone who joined for the Mental Health Social Justice session last Friday, and to Micha Frazer-Carroll and Emily Oliver for a generous and important presentation on the power of collective organising.
Micha discussed the systemic issues making us ill under capitalism and drew on the examples of the Socialist Patients Collective, Kingsley Hall and Trieste among efforts to approach mental health from a revolutionary perspective. Emily focused on the 1970s example of Red Therapy and the complications of inhabiting a dual position of service user and trainee therapist. In breakout groups we thought about what can be achieved when service users and practitioners organise together as well as the challenges this may bring up. Problems included the concept of safety, power imbalances related to medication and the differing degrees of willingness among practitioners to change things as they exist. These issues are things we are going to continue to explore through our programme, including at our next event
On Friday 27 Feb, 6.30-830pm we would like to invite you to our next event: Service-user & Practitioner Health Activism - Entrar Afuera Barcelona. The event will be online with zoom link shared via email.
Entrar Afuera is a militant research collective focused on exploring radical care practices involving public institutions, territories and people. Its participants come from an array of different backgrounds connected to care in different ways, including public health, primary care, mental health, culture and art, social movements and radical education and pedagogy. Its work began in 2016 with projects in Madrid, Trieste and Barcelona in collaboration with a variety of health and art institutions. The past two years Entrar Afuera has been one of the collectives involved in the programme Museo Habitat in Barcelona, and we are currently working on the curation of an exhibition on art and mental health for the Santa Mònica Arts centre in Barcelona.
Supported by the CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership.