Hearing their voices: The lived experience of recovery from first-episode psychosis in schizophrenia in South Africa

Wet, Anneliese de; Swartz, Leslie; Chiliza, Bonginkosi

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“…Connell et al [48] interviewed 20 persons with first episode psychosis (FEP) and reported recovery involved two processes closely related to meaning making, with greater subjective recovery related to the development of personally meaningful interpretation of the experience of SMI, strengthened relationships with others, and more cohesive sense of self. De Wet et al [49] analyzed interviews of seven participants experiencing FEP and reported recovery involved rejecting stigma and recapturing a previously held sense of agency and sense of self. More recently, Yarborough et al…”

Section: Methodologies For Defining Recovery As Subjective Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recovery and serious mental illness: a review of current clinical and research paradigms and future directions

Leonhardt

Huling

Hamm

et al. 2017

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

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Recovery from serious mental illness has historically not been considered a likely or even possible outcome. However, a range of evidence suggests the courses of SMI are heterogeneous with recovery being the most likely outcome. One barrier to studying recovery in SMI is that recovery has been operationalized in divergent and seemingly incompatible ways: as an objective outcome versus a subjective process. Areas covered: This paper offers a review of recovery as a subjective process and recovery as an objective outcome; contrasts methodologies utilized by each approach to assess recovery; reports rates and correlates of recovery; and explores the relationship between objective and subjective forms of recovery. Expert commentary: There are two commonalities of approaching recovery as a subjective process and an objective outcome: (i) the need to make meaning out of one's experiences to engage in either type of recovery and (ii) there exist many threats to engaging in meaning making that may impact the likelihood of moving toward recovery. We offer four clinical implications that stem from these two commonalities within a divided approach to the concept of recovery from SMI.

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Section: Methodologies For Defining Recovery As Subjective Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recovery and serious mental illness: a review of current clinical and research paradigms and future directions

Leonhardt

Huling

Hamm

et al. 2017

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

164

123

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“…Six interviews were rich enough in descriptive and interpretative narratives to be included in the analysis. Small sample was also applied in previous IPA studies (Chin et al, 2009; de Wet et al, 2015; Mawson, Berry, Murray, & Hayward, 2011). Double hermeneutics were used to explore how the participant interpreted their own experiences.…”

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“…The aim of this study was to explore the lived experiences of voice hearing individuals by applying the IPA method to examine the ways in which participants make sense of their voices, as was previously explored by several existing IPA studies (Chin et al, 2009; de Wet, Swartz, & Chiliza, 2015; Holt & Tickle, 2015).…”

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The experience of voice hearing and the role of self-help group: An interpretative phenomenological analysis

Rácz

Kaló

Kassai

et al. 2017

Int J Soc Psychiatry

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“…Thus, accounting for spiritual caring needs is not only a matter of supporting religious practices (50), but also of supporting patients searching for stability, peace and growth while helping them to balance different aspects of their spirituality. Such a dialectical approach can also support recovery, both by empowering the person to use his/her spirituality as a resource and by reducing stigma related to experiences of being different and alienated from others (51).…”

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A ‘near‐life experience’: lived experiences of spirituality from the perspective of people who have been subject to inpatient psychiatric care

Koslander

Rönning

Magnusson

et al. 2020

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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Aims To describe lived experiences of spirituality from the perspective of people who have been subject to inpatient psychiatric care and to interpret these experiences from an understanding of health as dialectical. Methods After approval from a regional ethical board, eleven participants were recruited from two organisations for people with mental health problems. Participants were asked to narrate about spiritual experiences and occasions where such experiences had come close. The transcribed interviews were analysed by means of a phenomenological hermeneutical approach. Findings A structural analysis of the text resulted in three themes; perceiving the presence of something extra mundane, making sense of reality and struggling for acceptance. The comprehensive understanding highlights spiritual experiences as going beyond religion, even though religious experiences appear as part of it. These experiences can indeed be a resource contributing to experiences of hope, connectedness, meaning and coherence in life. However, they can also give rise to doubt, anxiety and feelings of loneliness and hopelessness. Rather than understanding spiritual experiences as being either ‘good’ or ‘bad’, we could approach spirituality as something that is always present in alternate and inter‐related forms. Metaphorically, this could be understood as a ‘near‐life experience’, summarising participants’ experiences related to their struggle with issues related to suffering and health which are simultaneously present. Conclusions If psychiatric nurses could approach this complexity and, without being judgemental, explore seemingly positive and negative experiences of spirituality as dialectically related to each other, rather than viewing them as either resources or problems, this could contribute to insiderness care and hopefully also support people who struggle with these experiences to seek help when needed.

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Hearing their voices: The lived experience of recovery from first-episode psychosis in schizophrenia in South Africa

Abstract: The narrative in the process of recovery is crucial.

Cited by 30 publications

References 7 publications

Recovery and serious mental illness: a review of current clinical and research paradigms and future directions

Recovery and serious mental illness: a review of current clinical and research paradigms and future directions

The experience of voice hearing and the role of self-help group: An interpretative phenomenological analysis

A ‘near‐life experience’: lived experiences of spirituality from the perspective of people who have been subject to inpatient psychiatric care

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