title: Reconnecting: the client experience of recovery from psychosis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  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.
  
  
  RESULTS
  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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  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.affiliation: University of Western Ontario and Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada. cforchuk@uwo.ca
authors.forename: Cheryl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Forchuk
authors.forename: Jackie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jewell
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tweedell
authors.forename: Lianne
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Steinnagel
mesh_terms: D005239:Fear; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D020127:Recovery of Function