Beautiful and substantive report on our conference last June (part one). Take a look for a to-the-point summary of the great arguments and ideas that were presented. Thank you @lisabortolotti.com!

New post today on the #projectEPIC on the first day of the conference of expertise in mental health hosted by Radboud University: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/09/who-... #philsky #epistemicinjustice @who-knows-what.bsky.social

I interviewed Roy Dings and Linde van Schuppen for the #projectEPIC blog on their super interesting project on expertise in mental health! epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/09/who-... #philsky #EpistemicInjustice

We were so happy to have the inspiring @lisabortolotti.com give a keynote at our conference today! Great to see how a combination of expertise-through-experience, philosophy and empirical study has resulted in concrete and substantial recommendations for avoiding epistemic injustice.

Very interesting talks by Mahony and Chevalier, & by Stephen Gadsby, on lived experience and participatory research in the context of anorexia nervosa: to what extent does the pursuit of thinness or the anorexia diagnosis become part of the person's identity? #epistemicinjustice #philpsy #philsky

What a way to end the conference on expertise in mental health! Ian James Kidd discusses the hermeneutical frustrations in depression which can be understood phenomenologically and cautions against the use of the #epistemicinjustice framework in this context #philsky #philpsy

We have heard some amazing talks at our first conference day! First, the great dr. Serife Tekin @thebusyowl.bsky.social on the neglect of the self in psychiatry, and her Multitudinous Self Model. Next, Roy Dings and Derek Strijbos on how lived experience changes our responsiveness profile.

Last talk of day 1 of our conference 'Who knows what in mental health care?', by Julian Kiverstein. "Giving authority to the medicalized language of the DSM is exclusory to the vocabulary of lived experience" "Phenomenology can be a tool for communicating experiences that are hard to describe"

We have received such amazing abstracts in reaction to our CFP for our "Who knows what in mental health care?" conference! We'll be discussing the role of lived experience, experiential knowledge and epistemic injustice in psychiatry. Can't wait! June 10-11 @ Radboud University - more info soon.

Last week, we had our first reading group meeting about Borkman's famous 1976 article on experiential knowledge. It led us to the question: is there such a thing as '(in)correct' experiential knowledge? What would it mean for experiential knowledge, or even experience, to be 'incorrect'?

New publication! Roy Dings and Derek Strijbos propose a conceptual framework to address questions about the epistemic contribution of people with lived experience in (mental) healthcare. Expertise-by-experience, they argue, is about attuned responsiveness. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Our NWO project on experiential knowledge in mental health care is now online! What does it mean to be an 'expert-by-experience'? How is experiential knowledge different from other knowledges? And how can we improve mental healthcare by answering these questions? Follow us and find out!