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Narratives of Recovery from Mental Illness: The role of peer support

By (author) Mike Watts, By (author) Agnes Higgins

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Narratives of Recovery from Mental Illness presents research that challenges the prevailing view that recovery from â€˜mental illnessâ€™ must take place within the boundaries of traditional mental health services. While Watts and Higgins accept that medical treatment may be a vital start to some peopleâ€™s recovery, they argue that mental health problems can also be resolved through everyday social interactions, and through peer and community support. Using a narrative approach, this book presents detailed recovery stories of 26 people who received various diagnoses of â€˜mental illnessâ€™ and were involved in a mutual help group known as â€˜GROWâ€™. Drawing on an in-depth analysis of each story, chapters offer new understandings of the journey into mental distress and a progressive entrapment through a combination of events, feelings, thoughts and relationships. The book also discusses the process of ongoing personal liberation and healing which assists recovery, and suggests that friendship, social involvement, compassion, and nurturing processes of change all play key factors in improved mental well-being. This book provides an alternative way of looking at â€˜mental illnessâ€™ and demonstrates many unexplored avenues and paths to recovery that need to be considered. As such, it will be of interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, nursing, social work and occupational therapy, as well as to service providers, policymakers and peer support organisations. The narratives of recovery within the book should also be a source of hope to people struggling with â€˜mental illnessâ€™ and emotional distress

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