The governance of sexuality in a Recovery-oriented mental health service: Psychosis, consumers and clinical approaches.

The intersection of sexuality and psychosis has a long history, yet research in this area has been minimal over the past few decades. Mental health clinicians practice from within the confines of a mental health system that is founded on a conflict between containment and care and that positions the consumer as an object of care. At the same time, mental health services often have a Recovery approach to care. This presents a difficulty and tension in mental health clinical work because the Recovery approach is opposed to positioning the consumer as an object.