Insight and mental health care: the perspective of those whose insight is being questioned: in conversation with Dr Magda Furgalska

In this ‘in conversation’ with, I talk to Dr Magda Furgalska about her research into people’s lived experiences of ‘insight’ in the context of (often compulsory) mental health care, and we explore also whether and how it might be possible to move away from reliance upon a concept which finds no formal place in the law.

The paper we discuss is called “Informed consent is a bit of a joke to me’: lived experiences of insight, coercion, and capabilities in mental health care settings,” and can be found here.

For more about Magda’s work in relation to self-binding directives, see here.