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First-Person Research The Urgent (Unmet) Need for Consumers as Researchers David Webb

First-Person Research The Urgent (Unmet) Need for Consumers as Researchers David Webb (davidwebbo@gmail.com) Presented at Perspectives Peer Support and Innovative Practices in Recovery Annual Conference of Australian Mental Health Consumer Network (AMHCN) Melbourne, October 3-4 2006.

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First-Person Research The Urgent (Unmet) Need for Consumers as Researchers David Webb

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  1. First-Person Research The Urgent (Unmet) Need for Consumers as Researchers David Webb (davidwebbo@gmail.com) Presented at Perspectives Peer Support and Innovative Practices in Recovery Annual Conference of Australian Mental Health Consumer Network (AMHCN) Melbourne, October 3-4 2006

  2. Individual Collective Integral Model - 4 Quadrants Exterior Interior Subjective I It Objective Behavioural (observable) Intentional (felt experience) Phenomenology Psychology/Psychiatry • Validity: aesthetic • personal meaning/values • integrity, sincerity • Validity: empirical • observable, measurable • testable, repeatable Its We Inter-Objective Inter-Subjective Social Cultural Sociology/Ecology Anthropology • Validity: functional fit • cohesion, efficiency • ecological, economic • Validity: moral • shared meaning/values • ethics, justness

  3. Singular Plural 4 Quadrants of Mental Health Third-Person (observable) First-Person (invisible) • Lived/felt experience • personal, private • full of meaning • stories, self-talk • consumer perspective • External behaviour • value neutral • medical, pharmaceutical • behaviour modification • therapies (e.g. CBT) • Mutually shared experience • shared meaning-making • collective story-telling • peer support • consumer delivered • services • Social infrastructure • hospitals, services etc • community development • public policies • laws (Mental Health Act)

  4. Spirit Soul Mind Life Matter --------Physics Biology Psychology Theology Mysticism The Full Spectrum (Levels) of Consciousness Sources: Plotinus Aurobindo St. Teresa Grof Steiner Baldwin Habermas Maslow Buddhism Yoga Kabbalah Vedanta Theosophy Sufism Non-Dual Spirit

  5. Singular Plural AQAL – All Levels, All Quadrants Third-Person First-Person IT - behavioural I - intentional WE - cultural ITS - social

  6. Singular Plural Traditional ‘Evidence-Based’ Science Third-Person First-Person IT - behavioural I - intentional WE - cultural ITS - social

  7. Flatland “the great nightmare of scientific materialism was upon us (Whitehead), the nightmare of one-dimensional man (Marcuse), the disqualified universe (Mumford), the colonisation of art and morals by science (Habermas), the disenchantment of the world (Weber) – a nightmare I have also called flatland” - Ken Wilber (2000) “So-called ‘evidence-based’ research, policy and practice in mental health in Australia today is a flatland nightmare” - David Webb (2006)

  8. What Do We Do About This? • take consumer perspective seriously! • including first-person (consumer perspective) research to inform consumer sensitive policies and practices (services) • eliminate medical/clinical bias in mental health research – especially in funding! • consumers as research participants rather than research ‘subjects’ (i.e. research objects) • consumers as researchers • affirmative action education policies • a Centre for Consumer Perspective Studies etc etc etc …

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