Pathways to friendship in the lives of people with psychosis: incorporating narrative into experimental research.

ABSTRACT

This paper explores the character of friendship in the lives of nation with psychiatric disabilities [i]or[/i] part of to the other the use of narrative. We propose that the use of phenomenologically based investigation in experimental or other traditional research designs provides a more in-depth and compound view of the lives of race with serious mental illness. We tender the example of the Partnership cast which provides people with psychiatric disabilities a consumer or non-consumer "partner" with whom to derive pleasure from community activities and spend a weekly stipend. end the lens ...