ArticleQualitative health research2022
'Maybe I Shouldn't Talk': The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories.
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- 'Working Together to Meet in the Middle'. A Qualitative Descriptive Study of Power Dynamics in Lived Experience and Family Engagement in Mental Health and Substance Use Health Research.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
- 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
- Silent Scars in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: How Resource Insecurity Shapes Women's Mental and Reproductive Health in South Africa.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Multimodal Analysis of Stories Told by Mental Health Influencers on TikTok.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
- Micropolitics of Mental Health Recovery: An Assemblage Analysis of People's Experiences of Becoming Well.Community mental health journal · 2025Article
- Lived Experience is Our Superpower: Narratives from Four Global Shapers, World Economic Forum (WEF) Youth Mental Health Leaders Journeys.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- The role of patients' stories in medicine: a systematic scoping review.BMC palliative care · 2023Article
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- Making meaning of trauma in psychosis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
Mental health 'recovery narratives' are increasingly used within teaching, learning and practice environments. The mainstreaming of their use has been critiqued by scholars and activists as a co-option of lived experience for organisational purposes. But how people report their experiences of telling their stories has not been investigated at scale. We present accounts from 71 people with lived experience of multiple inequalities of telling their stories in formal and informal settings. A reflexive thematic analysis was conducted within a critical constructivist approach. Our overarching finding was that questions of power were central to all accounts. Four themes were identified: (1) Challenging the status quo; (2) Risky consequences; (3) Producing 'acceptable' stories; (4) Untellable stories. We discuss how the concept of narrative power foregrounds inequalities in settings within which recovery stories are invited and co-constructed, and conclude that power imbalances complicate the seemingly benign act of telling stories of lived experience.
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