Co-production to create meaning in psychosis: An innovative intervention

Co-production is a collaborative approach in which service users and mental health professionals share power and work together. As a clinical psychologist and mental health service user, we reflect on our experience using co-production as part of therapeutic treatment for psychosis in a community mental health service. This involved working together to co-produce a booklet about psychosis. Drawing from logotherapy, a therapeutic approach that asserts that distress results from a lack of meaning in life, we posit that co-production offers a unique opportunity to create meaning for people who have experienced psychosis and is, thus, an innovative therapeutic approach for promoting recovery.