On 30 September 2026, RECASAS founder Ingrid E. Johnson will introduce RECASAS as part of Mad in Deutschland’s MiDEinander online event series.
In her talk, “Rethinking Community—Beyond Diagnoses,” she will reflect on how her experiences of psychiatric coercion in New York City changed her understanding of support, human rights and self-determination. Many years later, she began to understand those experiences beyond psychiatric diagnoses and to reclaim her own story.
This process gave rise to a question that became central to the development of RECASAS: What might communities look like if they were not organised around diagnoses?
Bringing personal experience into conversation with perspectives from Mad Studies and sociology, the talk will present RECASAS as a community in which people encounter one another through shared interests, learning and cultural creation—not primarily as patients or people defined by diagnoses.
Date: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 7:00–8:00 p.m. CEST
Location: Online
Event series: MiDEinander, hosted by Mad in Deutschland
Language: German
Participation: Free
Registration will open at the beginning of September on the Mad in Deutschland website. Access information will be provided following registration.
