Tore Dag Bøe
Biographic Data
| ID | 215994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tore Dag Bøe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tore Dag |
| FAMILY NAME | Bøe |
| SIGNATURE | BØE T D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Agder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6955-9190 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Wellbeing takes place: Situated recovery in mental health and substance abuse
Despite growing recognition that wellbeing and recovery are entangled with everyday environments, research in mental health and/or substance use has largely focused on individual experiences or decontextualized indicators, offering limited insights into how social-material conditions of place may enable or constrain recovery processes. This gap calls for empirical studies that explore how wellbeing and recovery are enacted within the contexts of …
An ontology of difference: Speculations on psychotherapy, mental health work, difference, and ethical realism
In mental health and substance use, assessment and the resulting diagnosis determine the choice of treatment or therapy to be used with the individual client. In health policy today, treatment should be evidence based and standardized. Health care thus draws on New Public Management principles, where only those methods and practices considered to be evidence based are accepted in the “market” of public health care. However, we view psychotherapy …
Enabling Fuzziness: Autopsy of the Impact of Enabling Situations on Mental ‘Illness’
People’s stories about recovery include interactions with professionals. What happened in these situations? Seven situations were analysed using an abductive approach. Enabling situations seem to be characterised by their fuzziness regarding the place they occur, the time spent, the role of doings and the reciprocal interaction between the participants, resulting in a loss of balance, challenging their sense of self, professional settings and kno…
Steps towards a New Humanism in the Mental Health Disciplines - An Interview with Tim Ingold
This interview article explores how British anthropologist Tim Ingold’s work can inspire innovation in mental health and the psy disciplines. Ingold critiques dominant biomedical and individualistic approaches, arguing for the importance of caring attentiveness and abolishing dichotomies like those between surface and depth, when engaging with people to understand and assist them. Instead, he suggests viewing human existence as correspondences wi…
Being Human Today: Art, Education and Mental Health in Conversation
Return to reality: What does the world ask of us
This article introduces the project Return to Reality: What Does the World Ask of Us? This project evolved from a concern that frameworks in mental health operate with knowledge as their primary mode in such a way that reality is lost from sight. This is not primarily an epistemological problem, but an ethical and existential one: ethical because a knowledge-mediated relation to the real can make us blind to the ethical imperatives found in encou…
Living needs a landscape’: A qualitative study about the role of enabling landscapes for people with mental health and substance abuse problems
The deinstitutionalization of mental health institutions has enabled service users to live in the community and search for what Duff coins 'enabling places.' These places were explored through walking interviews, in which service-users led the way. This analysis revealed features which made places promote liveable lives: places help people explore, places help people stand out, places give people responsibilities, and places dare people. An adver…
A qualitative fallacy: Life trapped in interpretations and stories
This paper points out some problematic aspects of qualitative research based on interviews and uses examples from mental health. The narrative approach is explored while inquiring if the reality of life here is forced into the formula of a chronological story. The hermeneutic approach, in general, is also examined, and we ask if the reality of life in this scenario becomes caught up in a web of interpretations. Inspired by ideas from Bakhtin and …
The Lost Social Context of Recovery Psychiatrization of a Social Process
From being a concept questioning the core of psychiatric knowledge and practice, recovery has been adopted as a guiding vison for mental health policy and practice by different local, national, and international organizations. The aim of this article is to contextualize the different understandings of recovery and its psychiatrization through the emergence of an individualizing and de-contextualized definition which have gained a dominant positio…
The magic in the (extra)ordinary: Intensive validation to recalibrate the life‐worlds of adolescents exposed to abuse
This qualitative case study aimed to explore environmental circumstances and interactional processes that appeared to be relevant for the dynamics of resilience in adolescents exposed to child abuse. Fieldwork at a learning and coping centre for children and their families was combined with semi‐structured interviews with adolescent participants aged 12 to 18 years. A critical realist approach was used to unpack what has been called the ‘ordinary…
Ethical realism before social constructionism
In this article, I explore the idea that there is a fundamental ethical aspect that precedes social constructionism. I suggest that within social constructionism we can identify a development from seeing knowledge as socially constructed ( epistemological social constructionism) to seeing not only knowledge, but also corporeal ways of being as socially constructed ( ontological social constructionism). As a next step, I propose incorporating what…
Materialities in supported housing for people with mental health problems: A Blurry Picture of the Tenants
Our daily lives and sense of self are partly formed by material surroundings that are often taken for granted. This materiality is also important for people with mental health problems living in supported housing with surroundings consisting of different healthcare services, neighbourhoods, buildings or furniture. In this study, we explored how understandings of tenants are expressed in the materialities of supported housing. We conducted ethnogr…
Studies regarding supported housing and the built environment for people with mental health problems: A mixed-methods literature review
Places where people live are important for their personal and social lives. This is also the case for people with mental health problems living in supported housing. To summarise the existing knowledge, we conducted a systematic review of 13 studies with different methodologies regarding the built environment in supported housing and examined their findings in a thematic analysis. The built environment of supported housing involves three importan…
It’s not just a lot of words’. A qualitative exploration of residents’ descriptions of helpful relationships in supportive housing
This article explores how professional relationships may be helpful from the perspective of residents in staffed supportive housing for individuals with severe mental health and/or drug problems. Using in-dept interviews, residents were individually asked to describe a helpful relationship with a self-chosen staff member, the content of the help provided by this staff member and how this help influenced their lives. Using thematic analysis, we fo…
Small Things, Micro-Affirmations and Helpful Professionals Everyday Recovery-Orientated Practices According to Persons with Mental Health Problems
The aim of this study is to present concrete descriptions of the content in the construction of helpful relationships with staff, according to users. Starting with the re-occurring concept of the meaning of "little things" in recovery studies, a literature review was done. A thematic analysis shows that small things play an important role in improving a person's sense of self. Small things seem to be an invisible but effective parts of a recovery…
How Participants’ Inner Dialogues Contribute to Significant and Meaningful Moments in Network Therapy with Adolescents
She Offered Me a Place and a Future”: Change is an Event of Becoming Through Movement in Ethical Time and Space
The Lost Social Context of Recovery Psychiatrization of a Social Process
From being a concept questioning the core of psychiatric knowledge and practice, recovery has been adopted as a guiding vison for mental health policy and practice by different local, national, and international organizations. The aim of this article is to contextualize the different understandings of recovery and its psychiatrization through the emergence of an individualizing and de-contextualized definition which have gained a dominant positio…
It’s not just a lot of words’. A qualitative exploration of residents’ descriptions of helpful relationships in supportive housing
This article explores how professional relationships may be helpful from the perspective of residents in staffed supportive housing for individuals with severe mental health and/or drug problems. Using in-dept interviews, residents were individually asked to describe a helpful relationship with a self-chosen staff member, the content of the help provided by this staff member and how this help influenced their lives. Using thematic analysis, we fo…
Small Things, Micro-Affirmations and Helpful Professionals Everyday Recovery-Orientated Practices According to Persons with Mental Health Problems
The aim of this study is to present concrete descriptions of the content in the construction of helpful relationships with staff, according to users. Starting with the re-occurring concept of the meaning of "little things" in recovery studies, a literature review was done. A thematic analysis shows that small things play an important role in improving a person's sense of self. Small things seem to be an invisible but effective parts of a recovery…
Living needs a landscape’: A qualitative study about the role of enabling landscapes for people with mental health and substance abuse problems
The deinstitutionalization of mental health institutions has enabled service users to live in the community and search for what Duff coins 'enabling places.' These places were explored through walking interviews, in which service-users led the way. This analysis revealed features which made places promote liveable lives: places help people explore, places help people stand out, places give people responsibilities, and places dare people. An adver…
A qualitative fallacy: Life trapped in interpretations and stories
This paper points out some problematic aspects of qualitative research based on interviews and uses examples from mental health. The narrative approach is explored while inquiring if the reality of life here is forced into the formula of a chronological story. The hermeneutic approach, in general, is also examined, and we ask if the reality of life in this scenario becomes caught up in a web of interpretations. Inspired by ideas from Bakhtin and …
The magic in the (extra)ordinary: Intensive validation to recalibrate the life‐worlds of adolescents exposed to abuse
This qualitative case study aimed to explore environmental circumstances and interactional processes that appeared to be relevant for the dynamics of resilience in adolescents exposed to child abuse. Fieldwork at a learning and coping centre for children and their families was combined with semi‐structured interviews with adolescent participants aged 12 to 18 years. A critical realist approach was used to unpack what has been called the ‘ordinary…
Materialities in supported housing for people with mental health problems: A Blurry Picture of the Tenants
Our daily lives and sense of self are partly formed by material surroundings that are often taken for granted. This materiality is also important for people with mental health problems living in supported housing with surroundings consisting of different healthcare services, neighbourhoods, buildings or furniture. In this study, we explored how understandings of tenants are expressed in the materialities of supported housing. We conducted ethnogr…
She Offered Me a Place and a Future”: Change is an Event of Becoming Through Movement in Ethical Time and Space
How Participants’ Inner Dialogues Contribute to Significant and Meaningful Moments in Network Therapy with Adolescents
She Offered Me a Place and a Future”: Change is an Event of Becoming Through Movement in Ethical Time and Space
How Participants’ Inner Dialogues Contribute to Significant and Meaningful Moments in Network Therapy with Adolescents
Small Things, Micro-Affirmations and Helpful Professionals Everyday Recovery-Orientated Practices According to Persons with Mental Health Problems
The aim of this study is to present concrete descriptions of the content in the construction of helpful relationships with staff, according to users. Starting with the re-occurring concept of the meaning of "little things" in recovery studies, a literature review was done. A thematic analysis shows that small things play an important role in improving a person's sense of self. Small things seem to be an invisible but effective parts of a recovery…
Studies regarding supported housing and the built environment for people with mental health problems: A mixed-methods literature review
Places where people live are important for their personal and social lives. This is also the case for people with mental health problems living in supported housing. To summarise the existing knowledge, we conducted a systematic review of 13 studies with different methodologies regarding the built environment in supported housing and examined their findings in a thematic analysis. The built environment of supported housing involves three importan…
It’s not just a lot of words’. A qualitative exploration of residents’ descriptions of helpful relationships in supportive housing
This article explores how professional relationships may be helpful from the perspective of residents in staffed supportive housing for individuals with severe mental health and/or drug problems. Using in-dept interviews, residents were individually asked to describe a helpful relationship with a self-chosen staff member, the content of the help provided by this staff member and how this help influenced their lives. Using thematic analysis, we fo…
Materialities in supported housing for people with mental health problems: A Blurry Picture of the Tenants
Our daily lives and sense of self are partly formed by material surroundings that are often taken for granted. This materiality is also important for people with mental health problems living in supported housing with surroundings consisting of different healthcare services, neighbourhoods, buildings or furniture. In this study, we explored how understandings of tenants are expressed in the materialities of supported housing. We conducted ethnogr…
Ethical realism before social constructionism
In this article, I explore the idea that there is a fundamental ethical aspect that precedes social constructionism. I suggest that within social constructionism we can identify a development from seeing knowledge as socially constructed ( epistemological social constructionism) to seeing not only knowledge, but also corporeal ways of being as socially constructed ( ontological social constructionism). As a next step, I propose incorporating what…
The Lost Social Context of Recovery Psychiatrization of a Social Process
From being a concept questioning the core of psychiatric knowledge and practice, recovery has been adopted as a guiding vison for mental health policy and practice by different local, national, and international organizations. The aim of this article is to contextualize the different understandings of recovery and its psychiatrization through the emergence of an individualizing and de-contextualized definition which have gained a dominant positio…
The magic in the (extra)ordinary: Intensive validation to recalibrate the life‐worlds of adolescents exposed to abuse
This qualitative case study aimed to explore environmental circumstances and interactional processes that appeared to be relevant for the dynamics of resilience in adolescents exposed to child abuse. Fieldwork at a learning and coping centre for children and their families was combined with semi‐structured interviews with adolescent participants aged 12 to 18 years. A critical realist approach was used to unpack what has been called the ‘ordinary…
Living needs a landscape’: A qualitative study about the role of enabling landscapes for people with mental health and substance abuse problems
The deinstitutionalization of mental health institutions has enabled service users to live in the community and search for what Duff coins 'enabling places.' These places were explored through walking interviews, in which service-users led the way. This analysis revealed features which made places promote liveable lives: places help people explore, places help people stand out, places give people responsibilities, and places dare people. An adver…
A qualitative fallacy: Life trapped in interpretations and stories
This paper points out some problematic aspects of qualitative research based on interviews and uses examples from mental health. The narrative approach is explored while inquiring if the reality of life here is forced into the formula of a chronological story. The hermeneutic approach, in general, is also examined, and we ask if the reality of life in this scenario becomes caught up in a web of interpretations. Inspired by ideas from Bakhtin and …
Being Human Today: Art, Education and Mental Health in Conversation
Return to reality: What does the world ask of us
This article introduces the project Return to Reality: What Does the World Ask of Us? This project evolved from a concern that frameworks in mental health operate with knowledge as their primary mode in such a way that reality is lost from sight. This is not primarily an epistemological problem, but an ethical and existential one: ethical because a knowledge-mediated relation to the real can make us blind to the ethical imperatives found in encou…
Steps towards a New Humanism in the Mental Health Disciplines - An Interview with Tim Ingold
This interview article explores how British anthropologist Tim Ingold’s work can inspire innovation in mental health and the psy disciplines. Ingold critiques dominant biomedical and individualistic approaches, arguing for the importance of caring attentiveness and abolishing dichotomies like those between surface and depth, when engaging with people to understand and assist them. Instead, he suggests viewing human existence as correspondences wi…
Wellbeing takes place: Situated recovery in mental health and substance abuse
Despite growing recognition that wellbeing and recovery are entangled with everyday environments, research in mental health and/or substance use has largely focused on individual experiences or decontextualized indicators, offering limited insights into how social-material conditions of place may enable or constrain recovery processes. This gap calls for empirical studies that explore how wellbeing and recovery are enacted within the contexts of …
An ontology of difference: Speculations on psychotherapy, mental health work, difference, and ethical realism
In mental health and substance use, assessment and the resulting diagnosis determine the choice of treatment or therapy to be used with the individual client. In health policy today, treatment should be evidence based and standardized. Health care thus draws on New Public Management principles, where only those methods and practices considered to be evidence based are accepted in the “market” of public health care. However, we view psychotherapy …
Enabling Fuzziness: Autopsy of the Impact of Enabling Situations on Mental ‘Illness’
People’s stories about recovery include interactions with professionals. What happened in these situations? Seven situations were analysed using an abductive approach. Enabling situations seem to be characterised by their fuzziness regarding the place they occur, the time spent, the role of doings and the reciprocal interaction between the participants, resulting in a loss of balance, challenging their sense of self, professional settings and kno…
Mental health (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (9 works) · Qualitative research (9 works) · Social science (8 works) · Psychotherapist (6 works) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Public relations (5 works)