2 definitions by Rita Bins
Unrecovery is the freedom to be whoever we are regardless of sociopolitical acceptability and not having to conform to normative prescribed neoliberal mental health recovery standards. As coined by Recovery In The Bin
Doctors want me to conform, to have a job and a partner then I will be a happy normal person, but unrecovery let’s me howl at the moon and fight injustice, instead of accepting it.
by Rita Bins October 25, 2017
The co-opted form of 'Recovery', typically delivered and implemented by mental health services. Neorecovery is distinct to the original ethos of recovery as conceived and articulated by mental health survivors and service users, which was service user led, democratic, humanistic and based on collective values. In contrast, neorecovery is provider or service delivered, controlled or designed, typically paying lip service to meaningful and democratic user involvement or so called 'co-production'. Neorecovery reflects the current neo-liberal political context of society and mental health services in its approaches and practices, with its emphasis on individualism, 'responsibility', 'dependency' and work as a health outcome.
Gemma despaired at her new Recovery College prospectus and its neorecovery ethos. Courses included 'work will set you free' and 'understanding your economic burden on the state'.
by Rita Bins August 14, 2019