ABSTRACT
Chapter 8, Humans, science, and experiences in change, concludes the book by appealing for an interdisciplinary revolution in mental health care services and in social work and research. If meaning and consciousness shall continue to be considered the central theme in mental health care services, researchers and welfare workers dealing with human beings need to join forces with the interpretive disciplines in the humanities and in the social science, a guiding theme of this book. As living beings, we are not just physical brains or marionettes on strings in a rational historical play. We are creative, reflexive actors who have an impact on cultural and scientific norms, which we also, consciously and unconsciously, adapt. This is why mental health care workers and scientists dealing with psychological phenomena should not only seek to become a positivist Sherlock Holmes, intelligently discerning the concealed and buried meaning that is awaiting discovery, but in contrast, the detective who finds him/herself part of the game and thereby a co-creator of the mystery she/he seeks to solve.
