Research as praxis: challenging inequalities in systems of care

Bringing to fruition the transformative power of knowledge, and embracing the journal's commitment to interdisciplinarity, the authors in this issue advance social justice-oriented research agendas and bring powerful insights on urgent problems of our time. Hunt inspires us to take a careful look into these discourses and calls for a more reflexive and critical view of the biopsychosocial model" as well pointed out by the reviewers. [...]the article critically unpacks the notion of 'gains of suffering', demonstrating how it disempowers patients by serving as "further evidence of dysfunctional illness behavior." The thrust of this discussion is to understand the potential of practices between peers, which, according to the authors, consist of practices that are not mediated by hierarchical relationships, knowledge or power.