ArticlePsychology and psychotherapy2025
'Lemons to lemonade': Identity integration in researchers with lived experience of psychosis.
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- How, why, for whom, and in what contexts organisational and team dynamics shape, and are shaped by, service user researchers in higher education mental health research centres: a realist review protocol.Research involvement and engagement · 2026Review
- Meta-Research on the Science of Lived Experience Engagement in Mental Health and Substance Use Health Research: A Scoping Review and Qualitative Synthesis.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
- 'Lemons to lemonade': Identity integration in researchers with lived experience of psychosis.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectivesLived experience input is becoming recognised as vital to developing and delivering high quality research. However, employment as a lived experience researcher can create identity conflict, which can undermine well-being. In this study, we explored the nuances of both social identification and identity integration processes in individuals with lived experience of psychosis employed in research.
designQualitative study using a semi-structured interview format and thematic analyses.
methodsFifteen individuals were recruited, all employed in research in UK mental health care trusts or universities. All participants identified as having experience of psychosis and mental health care support and worked as a researcher, in a paid or voluntary capacity.
resultsTwo overarching categories were identified in the data, the basis for social identification and the complexity of identity integration within an academic context; specific themes were identified within each of these categories. The data support the value of social identification within this group, although based on shared human experience or being a survivor rather than diagnosis. Challenges to identity integration included conflict between subjectivity and the scientific method and structural stigma. Strong values around using distressing experiences for the benefit of others both furnished self-growth and connected people in groups. A superordinate identity such as 'useful person' facilitated the integration of lived experience and researcher-based social identities within the self.
conclusionsResearching this unique group advances understanding of how social identity forms and functions in a stigmatising context. Findings support the generalisability of the cognitive-developmental model of social identity integration.
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