Resumen de Towards a Radical Methodology of Mental Health: The Case of Participatory Action Research (PAR)
This paper analyses key research developments relating to mental health in the United Kingdom. The paper describes the problems traditional research methods have in relation to mental health in UK. By employing a distinctive methodological (PAR) approach to mental health provides a creative and important epistemological reasoning to developments and the nature of mental health definition and provision in the UK. The paper moves then to analyse the processes, principles and philosophical foundation of some participatory research approaches, arguing why they could form the basis for an epistemological understanding and explanation for and of identity of mental health. Participation in a common struggle may reduce the distance between the researcher and the researched, opening up the possibility that "knowledge from below" can influence the research process
