The Centre for Mad Culture UK provides a hub of information, creative engagement and community building for people with lived experience of madness and/or psychiatric services, as well as their family, friends and allies. Madfolk may include those who identify as mad, mentally ill, survivors of psychiatry, mental health service users, patients and/or neurodivergent.
Madness is commonly perceived as distressing, fearful and contentious. CMC UK aims to create a subversive discourse that challenges stigmatisation and encourages mad pride, thus transforming madness into a source of community, activism and solidarity.
about our vision
We envision the mad voice to be welcomed and cherished. In this vision:
- the mainstream biomedical and deficit models of mental health make way for a new paradigm: madness as a valuable aspect of human culture and intersectional identity, bringing gifts of knowledge and insight to the greater society;
- community responds to madness with justice, tolerance, kindness, recognition of human dignity and learning from what is offered.