"Nothing's changed, baby": How the mental health narratives of people with multiple and complex needs disrupt the recovery framework.

ABSTRACT: The dominant narrative in mental health policy and practice has shifted in the 21st century from one of chronic ill health to a 'recovery' orientation. Knowledge of recovery is based on narratives of people with lived experience of mental distress. However the narratives of people experiencing structural inequalities are under-represented in recovery research. Meanwhile, uses of recovery narratives have been critiqued by survivor-researchers as a co-option of lived experience to serve neoliberal agendas. To address these twin concerns, we undertook a performative narrative analysis of two 'recovery narratives' of people with multiple and complex needs, analysing their co-construction at immediate/micro and structural/macro levels. We found two contrasting responses to the invitation to tel

SUBMITTER: Llewellyn-Beardsley J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10316065 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature