PROBLEM: To understand the experience of recovery from psychosis from the consumer/client perspective. METHODS: A naturalistic, qualitative design with an ethnographic method for data analysis. Subjects (N = 10) were interviewed prior to and during the initial year of treatment with clozapine or risperidone. FINDINGS: Participants described recovery from psychosis as a process that started with improvements in their thinking and feeling, and extended to a series of reconnections with their environment. These reconnections icluded staff and family. Thinking moved from being focused on their internal self to a larger world. CONCLUSION: A person's recovery from pschosis involves the entire self, bringing all components of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of themselves into their experiences of life.
PROBLEM: To understand the experience of recovery from psychosis from the consumer/client perspective. METHODS: A naturalistic, qualitative design with an ethnographic method for data analysis. Subjects (N = 10) were interviewed prior to and during the initial year of treatment with clozapine or risperidone. FINDINGS:Participants described recovery from psychosis as a process that started with improvements in their thinking and feeling, and extended to a series of reconnections with their environment. These reconnections icluded staff and family. Thinking moved from being focused on their internal self to a larger world. CONCLUSION: A person's recovery from pschosis involves the entire self, bringing all components of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of themselves into their experiences of life.
Authors: Atul Jaiswal; Karin Carmichael; Shikha Gupta; Tina Siemens; Pavlina Crowley; Alexandra Carlsson; Gord Unsworth; Terry Landry; Naomi Brown Journal: Front Psychiatry Date: 2020-11-19 Impact factor: 4.157