ABSTRACT
Through a comparative view of medical and social approaches to mental health, this study investigates the experiences of people at a recovery centre (The Hub) in Hackney who are long-term unemployed and living with a Severe Mental Illness (SMI). It looks into how the combination of ‘illness’ and unemployment facilitates an alienating perception of ‘abnormality’ and how this is embodied by members of the community at The Hub. This will ultimately highlight the ways in which ‘well-being’ is experienced disparately dependent on socio-economic factors.
