 Claims arising from political movements made up of recipients of psychiatric care include the call for a seat at the policy-makers’ table; representational authority based on first person experience of psychiatric symptoms; the complaints of unjust treatment by the “survivors” of diagnosis and care; requests for equality of mental with other disabilities, and or mental with other medical conditions; recognition of neuro-atypicality from proponents of a neurodiversity model of disorder (Ortega 2009); and from “mad pride”, the claim that madness is an attribution from which to draw strength and cultural identity. Largely neglected until now within psychiatry or philosophical writing, the claims of mad pride have recently been critically evaluated and related to the social theory of philosophers like Honneth and Taylor (Rashed 2019).