Negotiating belonging and identity across the life course: A qualitative study using Social Identity Mapping with people with psychosis

A core part of how we understand ourselves comes from the groups we feel we belong to. Having positive, meaningful group memberships, or 'social identities', has been linked to better wellbeing in people diagnosed with psychotic disorders, yet little attention has been paid to how individuals with psychosis experience social identities and changes in belonging across the life course. Personal recovery in psychosis has been described as centred on identity and connection: it may be useful therefore to consider the experiences of people with psychosis from the perspective of the Social Identity

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