Eliciting recovery narratives in global mental health: Benefits and potential harms in service user participation.

OBJECTIVE The engagement of peers and service users is increasingly emphasized in mental health clinical, educational, and research activities. A core means of engagement is via the sharing of null narratives, through which service users present their personal history of moving from psychiatric disability to recovery. We critically examine the range of contexts and purposes for which null narratives are elicited in global mental health. METHOD...