Is clinical insight a determinant factor of subjective recovery in persons living with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorders?

•Global clinical insight in psychosis dit not participate in subjective recovery.•Only unawareness of current symptoms showed a significant positive role in recovery.•This lack of insight into symptoms refers to patients’ appraisals of their illness.•Patients’ narrative insight emerges as a recovery-oriented tool in clinical practice.•Clinicians have to work with poor insight to support a consensual recovery.