Drawing partly on personal experience, the author of this article seeks to unpack the expertise that service users bring to the design and delivery of mental health services. Service user involvement cannot be imposed by policy diktat from above, she…

This is an electronic version of an article published in Ethics and Social Welfare, 3(3), pp.229-233. Ethics and Social Welfare is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t744402347., In the flyer for the ‘Ethics that Work’ conference organized by this journal in November…