Don Bryant

Don Bryant was formerly a bank manager, set up a management training company with diverse clients across north-west England, joined Imagine, a Liverpool-based mental health charity, established an educational, training and employment centre for recovering drug users, and then became ill with severe depression in 2008. Since 2009 he has acted in numerous capacities as a service user and carer representative, winning the Chairman’s Award in 2015. He also served as a trustee of the national Mental Health Network.
 

Books by Don Bryant

Coproduction: Towards equality in mental healthcare

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This collection of chapters casts a critical eye on the concept of coproduction in our national mental health and learning disability services. Is it naive idealism? A one-way road to co-optioning the independent user/survivor movement? A major challenge to the hegemony of the psychiatric profession? The next progressive step in the shift away from medicalised care? Or is it…