‘It ain’t no bad thing to need a safe place to go mad. The problem is that a lot of psychiatric hospitals are more punishment than love… they need some Madlove.’
The Madlove website asks:
“Is it possible to go mad in a positive way? How would you create a safe place in which to do so? If you designed your own asylum, what would it be like?
Madlove is a project lead by artist’s the vacuum cleaner and Hannah Hull based on our experience of mental health, and our desire to find a positive space to experience mental distress… and enlightenment.
The project is bringing together people with and without mental health experiences, mental health professionals and academics, artists and designers – and everyone else on the spectrum.
The aim is to build the most crazy, bonkers, mental asylum we dare dream of: a desirable and playful space to ‘go mad’, countering the popular myth that mental illness is dangerous and scary. Together we are attempting to create a unique space where mutual care blossoms, stigma and discrimination are actively challenged, divisions understood, and madness can be experienced in a less painful way …”
Read (and see) more here.
Other posts about collaborative practice:
Humanising Psychiatry and Mental Health Care: The Challenge of the Person-Centred Approach
“I’ve Lived that Thing that We do with Families”: Understanding the Experiences of Practitioners’ Undertaking a Three-Year Open Dialogue UK Training Programme
On Psychiatric Diagnostic Categories from the Point of View of Humanistic-Experiential Psychotherapy