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To examine how young individuals navigate moral breakdown, reconstruct moral agency, and redefine a good life during and after a first episode of psychosis.

March 1, 2019Ethos

Beyond the “Crazy House”: Mental/Moral Breakdowns and Moral Agency in First‐Episode Psychosis

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NMNeely MyersSouthern Methodist University

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Prospective ethnographic study uncovers processes of moral breakdown and rejuvenation in early psychosis, highlighting intersubjective experimentation as a vital path to recovery.

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To examine how young individuals navigate moral breakdown, reconstruct moral agency, and redefine a good life during and after a first episode of psychosis.
Conducted a 2-year prospective, longitudinal study of 38 young individuals diagnosed with early psychosis.
Performed an in-depth ethnographic case study of one Mexican-American woman followed over a 5-month period during and after her initial psychiatric hospitalization.
Demonstrated that participants engage in moral experiments and ordinary ethics to redefine themselves as good individuals beyond clinical diagnoses and social stigma.
Identified intersubjective moral experimentation and researcher-participant moral entanglements as meaningful pathways for healing and repairing moral wounds.

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Neely Myers (2019) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a18f1e89b18e8e1efcfdad9 https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12225

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Prospective ethnographic study uncovers processes of moral breakdown and rejuvenation in early psychosis, highlighting intersubjective experimentation as a vital path to recovery.

Beyond the “Crazy House”: Mental/Moral Breakdowns and Moral Agency in First‐Episode Psychosis

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Beyond the “Crazy House”: Mental/Moral Breakdowns and Moral Agency in First‐Episode Psychosis

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