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ArticleCommunity mental health journal2025

Micropolitics of Mental Health Recovery: An Assemblage Analysis of People's Experiences of Becoming Well.

Jan Georg Friesinger, Alain Topor, Gunnhild Ruud Lindvig, Inger Beate Larsen

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Article in Community mental health journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors.

Jan Georg FriesingerDepartment of Psychosocial Health, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway. jan.g.friesinger@uia.no.ORCID 0000-0003-3462-8763
Alain ToporDepartment of Psychosocial Health, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway.
Gunnhild Ruud LindvigDepartment of Psychosocial Health, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway.
Inger Beate LarsenDepartment of Psychosocial Health, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mental health recovery takes place in a social and material world. However, socio-material contexts have often been absent from recovery studies. The present study was conducted in Norway, a Scandinavian welfare country. We interviewed people at meeting places who had experiences as service users, focusing on their experiences of becoming well, and analyzed their recovery stories using an assemblage framework. Our analysis identified four constitutive dimensions that promote mental health recovery: an atmosphere of togetherness, doings as more than the act, personal development, and integration in society. We discuss how these dimensions might be seen as social, relational, and material forces that create important micropolitics that challenge the individualistic professionalization of the recovery concept.

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Mental DisordersMental Health RecoveryPoliticsAdultFemaleHumansInterviews as TopicMaleMiddle AgedNorwayQualitative ResearchAssemblageMental HealthMicropoliticsPlaceRecovery

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PMID38922508
PMCPMC11772526

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