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

• 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.

Subject headings

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Hälsovetenskap -- Omvårdnad (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Health Sciences -- Nursing (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Recovery

mental health

assemblage

narratives

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)