You realise you are better when you want to live, want to go out, want to see people: Recovery as assemblage

Inger Beate Larsen, Jan Georg Friesinger, Monica Strømland and Alain Topor

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2022, vol. 68, issue 5, 1108-1115

Abstract: Background: The lack of social and material perspectives in descriptions of recovery processes is almost common in recovery research. Aim: Consequently, we investigated recovery stories and how people with mental health and/or addiction challenges included social and material aspects in these stories. Method: We conducted focus group and individual interviews. We investigated how the participants narrated their stories and how they assembled places and people in their recovery stories. Results: We found that narratives of recovery became assemblages where humans and their environments co-exist and are interdependent. Conclusion: As such, narratives about recovery are about everyday assemblages of well-being into which stories of insecurity are interwoven, without a start or stop point.

Keywords: Recovery; mental health; assemblage; narratives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/00207640211019452

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