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The Knowledge Concealed in Users’ Narratives, Valuing Clients’ Experiences as Coherent Knowledge in Their Own Right
Joint Authors
Hummelvoll, Jan Kaare
Ekeland, Tor-Johan
Kogstad, Ragnfrid
Source
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-7, 7 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-05-28
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Objective.
As the history of psychiatry has been written, users have told their stories and often presented pictures incompatible with the professional or official versions.
We ask if such a gap still exists and what the ethical as well as epistemological implications may be.
Study Design.
The design is based on a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach, with a qualitative content analysis of the narratives.
Data Sources.
The paper draws on user narratives written after the year 2000, describing positive and negative experiences with the mental health services.
Extraction Methods.
Among 972 users answering a questionnaire, 492 also answered the open questions and wrote one or two stories.
We received 715 stories.
610 contained enough information to be included in this narrative analysis.
Principal Findings.
The stories are coherent, containing traditional narrative plots, but reports about miscommunication, rejection, lack of responsiveness, and humiliation are numerous.
Conclusions.
The picture drawn from this material has ethical as well as epistemological implications and motivates reflections upon theoretical and practical consequences when users’ experiences do not influence professional knowledge to a larger degree.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Kogstad, Ragnfrid& Ekeland, Tor-Johan& Hummelvoll, Jan Kaare. 2014. The Knowledge Concealed in Users’ Narratives, Valuing Clients’ Experiences as Coherent Knowledge in Their Own Right. Advances in Psychiatry،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-497978
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Kogstad, Ragnfrid…[et al.]. The Knowledge Concealed in Users’ Narratives, Valuing Clients’ Experiences as Coherent Knowledge in Their Own Right. Advances in Psychiatry No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-497978
American Medical Association (AMA)
Kogstad, Ragnfrid& Ekeland, Tor-Johan& Hummelvoll, Jan Kaare. The Knowledge Concealed in Users’ Narratives, Valuing Clients’ Experiences as Coherent Knowledge in Their Own Right. Advances in Psychiatry. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-497978
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-497978