Personal recovery in forensic institutions as a political process: the significance of frameworks for clinical practice

Abstract

Support of personal recovery has been a stated goal for many mental health services since the early 2000s. Frameworks such as the CHIME-S described in this issue of BJPsych Open provide useful tools for the operationalisation of this in clinical practice. It is important, however, that through this act of normalisation we do not lose sight of the radical implications of personal recovery as a personal and political process taking place within a social world.

Keywords

• Recovery
• forensic mental health services
• rehabilitation
• ethics
• history of psychiatry