Research project The Other Corridor – Preconditions for Patients’ Encounters with outpatient Psychiatric Health Care
How do patients experience their encounters with psychiatric outpatient care - and what influences how these encounters turn out? This thesis examines what shapes everyday life in psychiatry with a focus on institutionalization, the exercise of power and patients' different conditions.
The thesis work investigates how patients’ encounters with outpatient psychiatric health care are formed in everyday clinical practice. The outset for the study is patients’ and health care staffs’ own experiences of patients’ encounter with outpatient psychiatric health care in Sweden.
The significance of everyday clinical practice in shaping patients’ encounters with the outpatient psychiatric health care is studied through analyses informed by institutional theory and power centered discourse analysis. The results also show how everyday clinical practice can entail different conditions for different patients’ depending on their living conditions.
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Veronica Brunér Anjou
PhD student
