Psychosis Narratives Project

This is a 3 year-long ethnographic study (conducted between 2015 - 2019) that examined historical, biological, and experiential narratives of first episode psychosis in Toronto, Canada. It consisted of formal & informal interviews, participant observation, document analysis examining clinicians, service users’, family members experiences of psychosis. In parallel, it tracked a socio-historical narrative of the early intervention paradigm in psychotic disorders. The project also developed a series of art workshops as the need for multimodal approaches to understanding psychosis became apparent within the larger ethnographic study.