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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 recovering 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 cannabinoids by means of interpretative phenomenological analysis. Harm Reduction Journal, 14(1), 9.) The third study investigates how the users of synthetic cannabinoids 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 International 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 selfhelp 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.
