ArticleCulture, medicine and psychiatry2022
The Recovery Narrative: Politics and Possibilities of a Genre.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- What Is the Value of Lived Experience Within Mental Health Professionals, and How Can It Influence Practice? A Systematic Review.International journal of mental health nursing · 2026Pooled it
- Uses and Misuses of Recorded Mental Health Lived Experience Narratives in Healthcare and Community Settings: Systematic Review.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2022Pooled it
- Not the story you want? Assessing the fit of a conceptual framework characterising mental health recovery narratives.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2020Pooled it
- How to Tell a Recovery Story 'Professionally'? Issues Related to the Transformation of Personal Stories During a Training for Becoming a Peer Support Worker.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
- A Qualitative Analysis of Trialogues Between People with Lived Experience, Their Relatives, and Mental Health Professionals.Community mental health journal · 2025Article
- Agential Epistemic Injustice in Clinical Interactions Is Bad for Medicine.Philosophy of medicine (Pittsburgh, Pa.) · 2025Article
- Rethinking 'Recovery': A Comparative Qualitative Analysis of Experiences of Intensive Care With COVID and Long Covid in the United Kingdom.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- One or Many Recoveries? Recoveries in the Plural for a Better Understanding of One's Healing Journey.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Review
- The Long or the Post of It? Temporality, Suffering, and Uncertainty in Narratives Following COVID-19.The Journal of medical humanities · 2025Article
- Wait for Me: Chronic Mental Illness and Experiences of Time During the Pandemic.The Journal of medical humanities · 2025Article
- Spiritually significant hallucinations: a patient-centred approach to tackle epistemic injustice.BJPsych bulletin · 2024Article
- Seeing Your Stories: Visualization for Narrative Medicine.Health data science · 2024Article
- Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19.Medical humanities · 2023Article
- "Nothing's changed, baby": How the mental health narratives of people with multiple and complex needs disrupt the recovery framework.SSM. Mental health · 2023Article
- Assessing Diversity and Inclusivity is the Next Frontier in Mental Health Recovery Narrative Research and Practice.JMIR mental health · 2023Article
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- Personal recovery and socio-structural disadvantage: A critical conceptual review.Health (London, England : 1997) · 2023Review
- Staying with Narrative: Stories of Shame and Gynecological Pain.Literature and medicine · 2023Article
- Lived Experiences of Mental Health Recovery in Persons of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Backgrounds within the Australian Context.Journal of psychosocial rehabilitation and mental health · 2022Article
- 'Maybe I Shouldn't Talk': The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories.Qualitative health research · 2022Article
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Abstract
Recovery is now widely acknowledged as the dominant approach to the management of mental distress and illness in government, third-sector and some peer-support contexts across the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the Anglophone Global North. Although narrative has long been recognised in practice and in policy as a key "technology of recovery," there has been little critical investigation of how recovery narratives are constituted and mobilised, and with what consequences. This paper offers an interdisciplinary, critical medical humanities analysis of the politics and possibilities of Recovery Narrative, drawing literary theoretical concepts of genre and philosophical approaches to the narrative self into conversation with the critiques of recovery advanced by survivor-researchers, sociologists and mad studies scholars. Our focus is not on the specific stories of individuals, but on the form, function and effects of Recovery Narrative as a highly circumscribed kind of storytelling. We identify the assumptions, lacunae and areas of tension which compel a more critical approach to the way this genre is operationalised in and beyond mental health services, and conclude by reflecting on the possibilities offered by other communicative formats, spaces and practices.
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