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You realise you are better when you want to live, want to go out, want to see people: Recovery as assemblage
Monica StrømlandInger Beate LarsenAlain ToporAlain ToporJan Georg Friesingersubject
NarrationFocus GroupsMental health030227 psychiatry03 medical and health sciencesPsychiatry and Mental healthMental Health0302 clinical medicineVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Klinisk medisinske fag: 750::Psykiatri barnepsykiatri: 757AestheticsHumansAssemblage (archaeology)Narrative030212 general & internal medicineSociologydescription
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.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-21 |