Applying a phenomenological method of analysis derived from Giorgi to a psychiatric nursing study

• Published in: Journal of Advanced Nursing
• Main Authors: Koivisto, Kaisa, Janhonen, Sirpa, Väisänen, Leena
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2002
• Subjects: Giorgi; Northern Finland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.2002.02272.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1365-2648.2002.02272.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-2648.2002.02272.x

Background. The experience of mental ill health is fundamentally disempowering. The processes of psychiatric hospital care and treatment may also add to the personal feeling of disempowerment. This disempowerment is partly due to the failure of others to afford a proper hearing to the person's...