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Coping with psychotic-like experiences without receiving help from mental health care. A qualitative study

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  • Jenny Boumans
  • Ingrid Baart
  • Guy Widdershoven
  • Hans Kroon

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This study describes the ways in which people with psychotic-like experiences without mental health care manage to achieve successful lives. The qualitative study, which used a grounded-theory approach combined with elements of narrative research, draws on interviews with 18 individuals who were recruited through a self-selection strategy via a national advertisement. The frequency of participants’ psychotic-like symptoms was comparable to that of patients who receive mental health treatment for psychosis; however, participants experienced lower levels of distress. The results provide insight into the variety of strategies and interpretative frameworks participants develop to create and to maintain self-defined successful lives while coping with psychotic-like experiences. Experiential knowledge from people outside care settings can be helpful in the development of more sophisticated activities, ideas, and discussions within the international recovery movement.

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  • Jenny Boumans & Ingrid Baart & Guy Widdershoven & Hans Kroon, 2017. "Coping with psychotic-like experiences without receiving help from mental health care. A qualitative study," Psychosis, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(1), pages 1-11, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpsyxx:v:9:y:2017:i:1:p:1-11
    DOI: 10.1080/17522439.2016.1178798
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