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This conference presents the results of the ANR research project “Experiential Knowledge and Health Narratives in Addiction Studies,” bringing together all those who contributed to it. It is part of a broader dynamic of collective valorization and recognition of knowledge derived from experience, which lies at the heart of the scientific approach developed within the project. The main findings, along with the methodological guides and reference frameworks developed during the research, will be presented and explained in the first part of the symposium. This presentation will provide an opportunity to share the theoretical, methodological, and operational advances produced.

The second part of the day will be devoted to discussion and collective work. It will aim to foster dialogue, dissemination, and appropriation of the results, as well as to consider their continuation and extension within the framework of a new collaboratively designed project. This participatory session will help identify concrete courses of action and strengthen partnerships around the sustainable co-construction of knowledge and practices.

The participatory research project SAEXNASA aims to formalize a method whose objective is to raise awareness of and structure patients’ experiential knowledge, with a view to developing their capacity to manage their illness and to disseminate experiential health knowledge. The composition of narratives and the thematic analysis of experiential knowledge drawn from these texts will make it possible to identify patients’ ability to perceive their sensations, to name their feelings, and to describe what they do with them. The research underpinning this project focuses specifically on the articulation between narrative expression (the ways in which patients construct their stories) and the processes involved in thematizing knowledge acquired through experience, as formulated by patients in their narratives.