[Recovering after a psychosis; Opening a path? Finding one's own voice?]

The author questions the meaning of the very notion of recovery from the perspective of people who have gone through a psychotic episode. Results of two studies are briefly presented under the angles of "social reintegration" from the perspective of discourses and practices of patients; the other on the place and significance of alternative community groups in mental health in regards to consumers' life trajectory and suffering. Narratives illustrate that recovery does not mean a return to what was "before". Recovery is organized around various themes that are intertwined: finding words, taming daily life, recovering control, reopening movement, naming the exceptional character of the experience and having it acknowledged. Recovery implies the possibility of building a significant inner space and reorganizing relationship to others and the world at the same time, according to one's own rythm.