User definitions of recovery from psychosis consider recovery to be an idiosyncratic process where internal factors such as hope and empowerment are important. Furthermore, unlike 'clinical' recovery, 'user-defined' recovery suggests that absence of 'symptoms' is not necessary for recovery to occur. The current study examined whether subjective factors such as hope and empowerment are linked to recovery fi*from psychosis and whether these factors are important in predicting user-defined recovery.