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- Timander, Ann-Charlott, 1972, et al.
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Recovery: experiences of resistance to disablism
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In: Disability & Society. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0968-7599 .- 1360-0508. ; 31:8, s. 1050-1063
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article explores whether it is fruitful to use a service user/survivor approach to recovery, by seeing recovery as survival of social invalidation. That is survival of the psychosocial forces that were the source of the experience of mental distress, and as survival of social opression by the psychiatric services and/or wider society. It could be argued that the participants in this study in the United Kingdom and Sweden recovered and reclaimed and (re)constructed positive identities. They actively resisted experiences of disablism and rebuilt their lives. By approaching recovery from a serivce user/survivor perspective, one is focusing on the social, structural and political aspects of the recovery process, and one is resisting biomedical, deviant and reductionist notions of recovery.
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- Timander, Ann-Charlott, 1972, et al.
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The negative effects of oppression in the recovery process
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In: Scandinavian journal of disability research. - : Stockholm University Press. - 1501-7419 .- 1745-3011. ; 19:1, s. 34-44
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The aim of this project was to study if and how experiences of oppression on the grounds fo mental distress and gender affect the reclaiming and (re)construction of identities in the recovery process. In this study 33 narratives were analysed using framework analysis. The analysis showed that the experience of oppression affected the participants negatively along emotional and psychological pathways and affected their life activities, that is, their recovery process was negatively affected. By using a British disability studies perspective on oppression (Thomas, C. 2010. "Medical Sociology and Disability Theory". In New Directions in the Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions. Assaults on the Lifeworld, edited by G. Scambler, and S. Scambler, 37-56. Palgrave McMillan) the understanding of experiences of mental distress and recovery was argued to be deepened. The process of recovery was in the light of the findings, argued to be a highly social and not just an individualistic process, were social factors like experiences of oppression could become a barrier in the recovery process.
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