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Lived Experience Inclusion & Power in Services & ResearchNo Access

The Publishing Dilemmas of Authors Who Have Lived Experience With Mental Illness

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20240026

This column details some of the ways in which psychiatric survivors or those writing about their lived experience with mental illness are disadvantaged and devalued in mainstream academic publishing. This devaluation stems from structural issues involving various organizations, persons, and practices. Breaking the constraints of this structure is extremely difficult, but the author proposes some ways of doing so.

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