Research Article

The Knowledge Concealed in Users’ Narratives, Valuing Clients’ Experiences as Coherent Knowledge in Their Own Right

Table 1

A summary of all the narrative themes under four main categories.

Psychiatric medical approachHumanistic-existential psychosocial approach

Medical-instrumental help experienced as beneficial  ( ) Positive experiences with psychosocial and social help and support ( )
Beneficial medication practice Traumas worked through
 Medicines and following up  Working through traumas
 Medicines that functioned ok  Obtained selfinsight
 Helped to reduce medicines  A new start and quality of life
Diagnosis experienced as a relief Experienced community
 Enough time for diagnosis  Trust, confidence, and feeling of worth
 Diagnosis and following up  Spiritual experiences
The experience that service is available  Peer support and network
 Access to hospital Welfare/socio-economic help
 Hospital as a place of refuge in crisis  Practical help
 Housing and activities

Psychiatric-medical help experienced as threatening and humiliating  ( )Rejection and encroachment in therapeutic relations with a humanistic-existential psychosocial approach ( )
Experienced rejection and isolation in treatment context
 Not taken seriously Bad communication
 Rejection, lack of treatment  Miscommunication
 Just stored away, no following up  No understanding
Strain caused by treatment Client’s dilemma rejected
 Medicines abruptly removed  Childhood/trauma rejected
 Negative side effects of medicines  Persuasion to divorce
 Wrong diagnosis  Children not cared about when parents were sent to hospital/ received help
Disrespect and threat to integrity Unethical behavior from the therapist
 Compulsion, punishment  Inappropriate behavior from the therapist
 Treated violently  Appointments not respected
 Accusations, infringements