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You realise you are better when you want to live, want to go out, want to see people: Recovery as assemblage

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  • Inger Beate Larsen
  • Jan Georg Friesinger
  • Monica Strømland
  • Alain Topor

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Background: The lack of social and material perspectives in descriptions of recovery processes is almost common in recovery research. Aim: Consequently, we investigated recovery stories and how people with mental health and/or addiction challenges included social and material aspects in these stories. Method: We conducted focus group and individual interviews. We investigated how the participants narrated their stories and how they assembled places and people in their recovery stories. Results: We found that narratives of recovery became assemblages where humans and their environments co-exist and are interdependent. Conclusion: As such, narratives about recovery are about everyday assemblages of well-being into which stories of insecurity are interwoven, without a start or stop point.

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  • Inger Beate Larsen & Jan Georg Friesinger & Monica Strømland & Alain Topor, 2022. "You realise you are better when you want to live, want to go out, want to see people: Recovery as assemblage," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 68(5), pages 1108-1115, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:68:y:2022:i:5:p:1108-1115
    DOI: 10.1177/00207640211019452
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