Money, Social Relationships and the Sense of Self: The Consequences of an Improved Financial Situation for Persons Suffering from Serious Mental Illness

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Things matter: about materiality and recovery from mental health difficulties

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The Lost Social Context of Recovery Psychiatrization of a Social Process

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Mutual learning: exploring collaboration, knowledge and roles in the development of recovery-oriented services. A hermeneuticphenomenological study

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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

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.publishedVersio

A qualitative fallacy: Life trapped in interpretations and stories

This paper points out some problematic aspects of qualitative research based on interviews and uses examples from mental health. The narrative approach is explored while inquiring if the reality of life here is forced into the formula of a chronological story. The hermeneutic approach, in general, is also examined, and we ask if the reality of life in this scenario becomes caught up in a web of interpretations. Inspired by ideas from Bakhtin and phenomenology, we argue for interview-based research that stays with unresolvedness and constantly question the web of interpretations and narratives that determine our experiences. This also chimes with certain dialogical practices in mental health in which tolerance of uncertainty is the guiding principle. Concludingly, we suggest that interview-based research could be a practice of ‘un-resolving’ in which researchers, together with the participants, look for cracks, contradictions, and complexities to prevent the qualitative fallacies of well-organized meanings and well-composed stories.publishedVersio

Materialities in supported housing for people with mental health problems : a blurry picture of the tenants

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‘It’s not just a lot of words’. A qualitative exploration of residents’ descriptions of helpful relationships in supportive housing

Author's accepted manuscript.This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in European Journal of Social Work on 24/10/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13691457.2019.1682523.acceptedVersio

Studies regarding supported housing and the built environment for people with mental health problems : A mixed-methods literature review

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