In the context of my master's thesis, I first started with an establishment of support groups for hearing voices in a special social welfare institution. When measures related to the coronavirus pandemic prevented this, I have through conversations and participatory observation explored the experience of voice hearers in a special social welfare institution, their attitude towards the latter, coping strategies, and the type of support they receive within institutions. In my master’s thesis I am interested in the extent to which the support is effective and in what (alternative) ways, professionals could help people cope with voices. In the theoretical introduction, I write about the cultural-historical understanding of the phenomenon of voices and visions, about the traditional-psychiatric as well as the psychosocial and religious model of understanding voices. Within a different perspective in the field of mental health, I also mention the Hearing voices movement, phenomenological psychiatry, antipsychiatry, etc. In the last chapter I place the research in the context in which it takes place - a special social welfare institution. I rely on the findings of the theoretical work in the empirical part.
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