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1Community, Culture & Mental Health Unit, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, Western Australia. tony.henderson@uwa.edu.au
Background:
This study investigated Western Australian consumer perspectives of recovery from the effects of a severe mental illness.
Method:
The grounded theory method was used to collect and analyze data acquired through 15 face-to-face interviews.
Discussion:
Participants described recovery as a three-phase process of overcoming loss in biomedical, psychological and/or social dimensions. This process was facilitated by personal protective factors and external mechanisms and further explained in the context of role theory.
Conclusions:
Recovery can occur in any one or all of the three dimensions and thus can be complete or partial. It is important to ask, therefore: recovery from what, recovery of what, and recovery to what?
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