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Reconnecting: the client experience of recovery from psychosis
Cheryl Forchuk1, Jackie Jewell, Donna Tweedell
1University of Western Ontario and Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada. cforchuk@uwo.ca
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.
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