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'This story illustrates a plotline: one that threads through multiple storylines to form a thesis (or propositional statement). It is a proposition about how the endings of the “stories” currently being told of Aboriginal people interfere with the ability of health professionals and others ability to listen to their stories of Recovery in mental health care. Listening, for the purposes of this text, does not involve hearing or sounds – rather it relates to the silent and silencing spaces that occurs after a story has been told and the space before and between words that are spoken (and read). These silences are positioned here as the place where theory transforms into practice – praxis. It is positioned as the place where individuals transform understanding into experience and action; and where mental health care praxis occurs, and where it is practiced and researched.' (Publication abstract)
