ArticleInternational journal of mental health nursing2022
Psychiatry and/or recovery: a critical analysis.
Article in International journal of mental health nursing, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Collaboration Between People Admitted to Acute Mental Health Units, Their Family Members and Nurses in the Detection of Mental State Changes and Recovery: A Qualitative Systematic Review.International journal of mental health nursing · 2026Pooled it
- Recovery-Oriented Care Planning in Mental Healthcare Services: A Combined Concept Analysis and Scoping Review.International journal of mental health nursing · 2026Article
- Whose voice is heard? Mental health professionals' involvement, epistemic injustice, and the ethics of psychiatric advance directives.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Wicked Labels, and the Power of Narrative in Mental Health Nursing.Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing · 2025Article
- Brief admission by self-referral for adolescents who self-harm: discourses on involvement and responsibility among parents and other significant adults.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Perspectives of general psychiatric inpatient care for persons with anorexia nervosa: an integrative literature review.BMJ open · 2025Review
- When Psychiatric Services Become a Waiting Room: Situational Analysis of Involuntary Commitment and Treatment as Experienced by Patients and Nurses.Clinical nursing research · 2025Article
- Applying Critical Discourse Analysis to Cross-Cultural Mental Health Recovery Research.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
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Abstract
This perspective paper aims to present a personal viewpoint on the impact of psychiatric discourse on the principles of recovery in mental health care. Mental health services espouse these principles, yet psychiatric discourse remains the dominant model. A critical analysis will examine how psychiatry maintains this dominance. The aim is to examine how psychiatric discourse constructs both the nature of mental distress and its treatment, and how it maintains its power as the dominant authority and its relationship to recovery principles. The paper concludes that psychiatric discourse is the antithesis of recovery principles and that its authority is perpetuated through co-opting a medical explanatory model, claiming expertise in the ability to predict social risk, and maintaining a tightly controlled echo chamber. A way forward involves the dismantling of the hierarchical service delivery model based on psychiatric discourse and replacing it with a more horizontal service delivery model in which the lived experience of mental distress is central. Regular audit of services needs to prioritize recovery principles. The implications for mental health nursing are considered.
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