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nological Analysis (IPA - a qualitative psychological research method) and
the recovery approach.
The first part, namely the Introduction describes IPA and the recovery
approach. More specifically, it discusses the theoretical foundations and the
research design of IPA, also introduces what recovery approach is, and in
what areas is it used. The last part of Introduction concerns why it is beneficial
to use IPA in research assessing recovery stories.
The second part of the book consists of four empirical studies related to the
recovery approach. The first paper presents experiences of recovering helpers
who are working in addiction field. The main concern of this paper was to
assess the process of addicts become recovering helpers, and how they perceive
their identity. It was published in International Journal of Mental Health and
Addiction in 2015 (Rácz, J., Kassai, S., Pintér, J. N., Benedeczki, P., Dobö-Nagy,
Z., Horvath, Z., & Gyarmathy, V. A. (2015). The therapeutic journeys of recov¬
ering helpers - an interpretative phenomenological analysis. International
Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 13(6), 751-757.). The second paper
reports the expereince of using synthetic cannabinoids. The aim of this paper
was to examine personal interpretations of experiences derived from the use
of synthetic cannabinoids. It was published in Harm Reduction Journal in 2017
(Kassai, S., Pintér, J. N., Rácz, J., Böröndi, B., Tóth-Karikó, T., Kerekes, K., &
Gyarmathy, V. A. (2017). Assessing the experience of using synthetic canna¬
binoids by means of interpretative phenomenological analysis. Harm Reduction
Journal, 14(1), 9.) The third study investigates how the users of synthetic can¬
nabinoids perceived themselves during the use of SCs and how their identity
formation is affected by the use of the drug. It was published in International
Journal of Mental Health and Addiction in 2017 (Kassai, S., Pintér, J. N., Racz,
J., Erdösi, D., Milibäk, R., & Gyarmathy, V. A. (2017). Using Interpretative
Phenomenological Analysis to Assess Identity Formation Among Users of
Synthetic Cannabinoids. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction,
15(5), 1047-1054.). The last study presents the recovery experience of people
who are hearing voices. The study aimed to explore the lived experience of
voice hearing, to examine how participants make sense of their voice hearing
experience, to examine what does recovery mean in this context and to explore
the role of voice hearing self-help group. This paper was pulished in Interna¬
tional Journal of Social Psychiatry in 2017 (Rácz, J., Kaló, Z., Kassai, S., Kiss,
M., & Pintér, J. N. (2017). The experience of voice hearing and the role of self¬
help group: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. International Journal
of Social Psychiatry, 63(4), 307-313.). The co-authors of the four papers have
all given their approval to use these studies in the book.