Owning one’s perspective Clause Samples

Owning one’s perspective. The thematic analysis was conducted by the author, AS, who is a clinical psychologist in the final year of her training. Prior to the clinical doctorate training AS had a background in psychological research. Of relevance to the current study, AS spent one year assisting in setting up one of the two research projects from which the current data corpus is drawn. In this capacity AS developed an interest in how psychiatrists communicate with patients with psychosis and ways in which this might be improved upon in current practice in the NHS. In this regard it is important to state a potential bias towards a critical appraisal of psychiatrists in this context. However, the main question of the current study focuses primarily on the views and experiences expressed by patients when describing their psychotic symptoms, an area of relative novelty to AS, and as such has been approached with objectivity as far as is possible in any qualitative analysis. It is worth considering however, that the training and ethos of clinical psychology prioritises the individual formulation of each patient’s needs based in large part on their own subjective experiences of them, arguably to a greater degree than psychiatrists who are trained within a more traditional medical model of psychiatric illness. The analysis conducted in the current study is likely to reflect these inherent views.