Healthy or ill? The categories of mental health and mental illness in the perspective
of individuals with the experience of a mental health crisis and the new role of the expert by experience in the mental health and social welfare system Cover Image

Zdrowy/a? Chory/a? Kategoria zdrowia i choroby psychicznej w oczach osób z doświadczeniem kryzysu psychicznego oraz nowa rola eksperta przez doświadczenie (EX-IN) w systemie opieki zdrowotnej i pomocy społecznej
Healthy or ill? The categories of mental health and mental illness in the perspective of individuals with the experience of a mental health crisis and the new role of the expert by experience in the mental health and social welfare system

Author(s): Zuzanna Neuve-Eglise
Subject(s): Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: mental health; mental illness; destigmatisation; recovery; expert by experience (EX-IN)

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the results of qualitative research on ways of perception of the categories of mental health and illness by individuals with the experience of psychotic and psycho-affective disorders in the context of their recovery process. Moreover, the author puts an emphasis on describing one of the strategies of dealing with the stigma of mental disorder, which translates itself into a new social and professional role of the expert by experience (EX-IN).

  • Issue Year: 23/2018
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 227-240
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish