Importance of Lived Experience in Mental Health Issues: A Conversation with Matthew Jackman

Importance of Lived Experience in Mental Health Issues: A Conversation with Matthew Jackman   

Matthew Jackman has an intense conversation with Bernadine about the importance of the recognizing the immense value of those with lived experience as we examine mental health challenges.   Matthew Jackman is a mental health advocate promoting human rights, social justice …  he is activist from an academic science from a public health and mad studies knowledge base. He trained as social worker and has partnered with different marginalized and disadvantaged communities which focus on mental health. Matthew is a representative, ambassador or advisor with the Global Mental Health Peer Network, the World Economic Forum, the Australian Association of Social Workers, Generation Mental Health, and the World Health Organisation on key global mental health documents requiring lived experience perspective.  He is a certified peer specialist and a visiting scholar in Psychiatry at Yale and Harvard University. He focuses on alternatives to psychiatry.   Most recently he has accepted the role of Commissioner on Lived Experience in Mental Health Research for the Lancet Psychiatry.  For those of who do not know the Lancet is one of the oldest peer-reviewed medical journals.