Abstract
This study investigated Western Australian consumer perspectives of recovery from the effects of a severe mental illness. The grounded theory method was used to collect and analyze data acquired through 15 face-to-face interviews. Participants described recovery as a three-phase process of overcoming loss in biomedical, psychological and/or social dimensions. This process was facilitated by personal protective factors and external mechanisms and further explained in the context of role theory. Recovery can occur in any one or all of the three dimensions and thus can be complete or partial. It is important to ask, therefore: recovery from what, recovery of what, and recovery to what?
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