This article looks at recent research that shows that Scotland pioneered the user movement. The Scottish Union of Mental Patients (SUMP) was founded sometime between 1969 and 1971, before the foundation of the Mental Patients Union in London in 1973. The article details the genesis of its first action, the "Petition for redress of grievances put forward by patients in Hartwood Hospital, Shotts Lanarkshire" and subsequent developments including the production of the training video "speaking from experience" in 1985. The article concludes with details of Scottish and English groups that are currently working on the history of the survivor movement.
This article looks at recent research that shows that Scotland pioneered the user movement. The Scottish Union of Mental Patients (SUMP) was founded sometime between 1969 and 1971, before the foundation of the Mental Patients Union in London in 1973. The article details the genesis of its first action, the "Petition for redress of grievances put forward by patients in Hartwood Hospital, Shotts Lanarkshire" and subsequent developments including the production of the training video "speaking from experience" in 1985. The article concludes with details of Scottish and English groups that are currently working on the history of the survivor movement.
Subject terms:
mental health problems, mental health services, policy, user participation, user views, attitudes;
Veterans of the user-survivor movement, Peter Campbell and Andrew Roberts, profile the Survivors' History Group, a network of approximately 100 members across the UK and Ireland, who believe that the history of individual and collective action by service users / survivors is both interesting and important, and worthy of preservation.
Veterans of the user-survivor movement, Peter Campbell and Andrew Roberts, profile the Survivors' History Group, a network of approximately 100 members across the UK and Ireland, who believe that the history of individual and collective action by service users / survivors is both interesting and important, and worthy of preservation.
Subject terms:
interest groups, memory, mental health problems, mental health services, service users, survivors, user views;