Understanding recovery in the context of lived experience of personality disorders: a collaborative, qualitative research study

BMC Psychiatry

Marion Neffgen¹  Kati Turner²  Steve Gillard² 

[1]South West London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, Springfield University Hospital, Glenburnie Way, London SW17 7DJ, UK

[2]Population Health Research Institute, St George’s, University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE, UK

关键词: Co-production of knowledge;    Collaborative research;    Qualitative research;    Discourse;    Lived experience;    Personality disorders;    Recovery;   

Others  :  1225249
DOI  :  10.1186/s12888-015-0572-0

 received in 2014-08-20, accepted in 2015-07-22,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Concepts of recovery increasingly inform the development and delivery of mental health services internationally. In the UK recent policy advocates the application of recovery concepts to the treatment of personality disorders. However diagnosis and understanding of personality disorders remains contested, challenging any assumption that mainstream recovery thinking can be directly translated into personality disorders services.

Methods

In a qualitative interview-based study understandings of recovery were explored in extended, in-depth interviews with six people purposively sampled from a specialist personality disorders’ service in the UK. An interpretive, collaborative approach to research was adopted in which university-, clinical- and service user (consumer) researchers were jointly involved in carrying out interviews and analysing interview data.

Results

Findings suggested that recovery cannot be conceptualised separately from an understanding of the lived experience of personality disorders. This experience was characterised by a complexity of ambiguous, interrelating and conflicting feelings, thoughts and actions as individuals tried to cope with tensions between internally and externally experienced worlds. Our analysis was suggestive of a process of recovering or, for some, discovering a sense of self that can safely coexist in both worlds.

Conclusions

We conclude that key facilitators of recovery – positive personal relationships and wider social interaction – are also where the core vulnerabilities of individuals with lived experience of personaility disorders can lie. There is a role for personality disorders services in providing a safe space in which to develop positive relationships. Through discursive practice within the research team understandings of recovery were co-produced that responded to the lived experience of personality disorders and were of applied relevance to practitioners.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Gillard et al.

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