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Beyond the counter-narrative: Exploring alternative narratives of recovery from the psychiatric survivor movement

Adame, Alexandra L., Knudson, Roger M.·2007·Narrative Inquiry

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The discourse of the medical model of mental illness tends to dominate people’s conceptions of the origins and treatments of psychopathology. This reductionistic discourse defines people’s experiences of psychological distress and recovery in terms of illnesses, chemical imbalances, and broken brains. However, the master narrative does not represent every individual’s lived experience, and alternative narratives of mental health and recovery exist that challenge our traditional understandings of normality and psychopathology. Guided by the method of interpretive interactionism, we examined how psychiatric survivors position themselves in relation to the medical model’s narrative of recovery. In its inception, the psychiatric survivor movement created a counter-narrative of protest in opposition to the medical model’s description and treatment of psychopathology. Since then, the movement has moved beyond the counter-narrative and has constructed an alternative narrative; one that is not defined in opposition to the master narrative but instead participates in an entirely different discourse.

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  • Adame and Knudson (81) "Another traditional construction from the survivors' narratives was "recovery from the mental health system" [...] all four participants felt that recovering from psychiatric interventions (e.g., ECT, drugs, solitary confinement) was one of, if not the biggest, challenge in their entire healing process".

    “Examples can be found in Adame and Knudson (81) “Another traditional construction from the survivors' narratives was “recovery from the mental health system” […] all four participants felt that recovering from psychiatric interventions (e.g., ECT, drugs, solitary confinement) was one of, if not the biggest, challenge in their entire healing process””

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Authors
Adame, A. L., & Knudson, R. M.
Affiliations
Miami University (US)
Venue
Narrative Inquiry
Published
2007-12-31
Volume
17
Issue
2
Pages
157-178
ISSN
  • 1387-6740 (ISSN-L)
  • 1569-9935
OpenAlex
W1977036214
Cited by
96
References
0
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 4
FWCI
2.62
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Narrative Inquiry (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
Keywords
medical model of mental illness, counter-narratives, psychopathology, normality, recovery, interpretive interactionism

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