A collective narrative of care and complex mental illness
Park, Tanya, Breedt, Eduan, Sommerfeld, Megan, Komar, Lindsay, Tailby, Nicole, Podritske, Karlee, and Barlott, Tim (2025) A collective narrative of care and complex mental illness. Health, 29 (6). 13634593251358048.
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Abstract
Caring is a fundamental concept in healthcare, yet it is fraught with challenges for people living with complex mental illnesses (CMI). Many scholars theorize relationality and interdependence in their definitions of care, however, there has paradoxically been a sustained failure to involve the testimonies and voices of the people who clinicians are connected to and have interdependent relationships with. Using the work of feminist ethics of care scholars Berenice Fisher and Joan Tronto, we conceptualize care work through relationality and sensitivity to (in)justice. While foregrounding relationality and justice, we used a collective narrative methodology and collective documentation to create stories of care. By documenting stories of care, we hope to contribute to the conversations on care and caring practices.
| Item ID: | 88446 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1461-7196 |
| Keywords: | care, caring, collective narrative, epistemic injustice, mental illness |
| Copyright Information: | © The Author(s) 2025. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Apr 2026 04:26 |
| FoR Codes: | 42 HEALTH SCIENCES > 4205 Nursing > 420504 Mental health nursing @ 100% |
| SEO Codes: | 20 HEALTH > 2003 Provision of health and support services > 200307 Nursing @ 100% |
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