ABSTRACT It has been argued that qualitative research can be valuable in providing a forum for the voices of those who may usually be excluded from academic discourse and that it is therefore well suited to exploring individuals’ experiences of illness. This article is informed by the authors’ research into how people diagnosed with ‘schizophrenia’ experience their personal therapy. It focuses upon the usefulness of phenomenological research methods for investigating personal experience whilst at the same time considering how these methods might enable the researcher to hear the experience of others. It is proposed that personal stories can be seen as being closer to literature and so something of their essence can be killed off by having to shape them through systematic approaches to research. Therefore, the aim here is to explore whether it is possible or indeed desirable to take a systematic approach to personal experience when conducting psychotherapeutic research and how this might be beneficial or detrimental to researcher and participants.

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寻找我的声音：通过启发式自搜索查询讲故事

摘要 有人认为，定性研究可以为那些通常被排除在学术话语之外的人的声音提供一个论坛，因此它非常适合探索个人的疾病经历。这篇文章来自作者对被诊断患有“精神分裂症”的人如何体验他们的个人治疗的研究。它侧重于现象学研究方法在调查个人经验方面的有用性，同时考虑这些方法如何使研究人员能够听到他人的经验。有人提出，个人故事可以被视为更接近文学，因此必须通过系统的研究方法来塑造它们的本质，因此可以扼杀它们。所以，