The Harry Potter universe is both widely accessible and incredibly popular, and this feature combined with its depth of narrative and genre may make it uniquely suitable to supporting mental health recovery. The current study aims to address a gap in the literature around how engagement with the Harry Potter universe, in the tradition of unguided creative bibliotherapy, may allow people to derive psychologically-relevant meanings from these narratives as part of their mental health recovery journey. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six individuals who identified as Harry Potter fans, had experienced mental health challenges, and were in recovery. Interviews were transcribed and analysed inductively to identify themes. Three superordinate themes were established that captured participants’ experiences of using Harry Potter along their mental health recovery journey: Early Engagement, Immersive World, and Connection. Although participants employed Harry Potter in creative and individual ways, best suited to their lived experience of mental health recovery, the superordinate themes pointed to several commonalities in how these fans used the series, and these reflected contemporary models of mental health recovery.

在哈利·波特宇宙既可广泛访问又难以置信地受欢迎，并且此功能与其叙述和体裁的深度相结合，可能使其特别适合支持心理健康恢复。当前的研究旨在解决文学方面的空白，即在不受指导的创造性文献治疗的传统下，与哈利·波特宇宙的互动如何使人们从这些叙述中获得与心理相关的含义，作为他们心理健康恢复之旅的一部分。对六个人进行了半结构化访谈，他们被确定为哈利波特迷，经历过心理健康挑战并且正在康复。采访被转录并归纳分析以识别主题。建立了三个上级主题，这些主题捕获了参与者在其心理健康恢复过程中使用“哈利波特”的经历：早期参与，沉浸式世界和人际关系。尽管参加者哈里·波特（Harry Potter）以创造性和个性化的方式，最适合他们的心理健康恢复经验，上级主题指出了这些粉丝如何使用该系列的几个共同点，并且反映了当代的心理健康恢复模型。