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