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Exploring a lay Gestalt of schizophrenia? A Danish background population’s explanations on why and how first-episode schizophrenia patients’ narratives were intuitively sensed as contextually inappropriate Cover

Exploring a lay Gestalt of schizophrenia? A Danish background population’s explanations on why and how first-episode schizophrenia patients’ narratives were intuitively sensed as contextually inappropriate

Open Access
|Nov 2017

Figures & Tables

TABLE 1.

Lay experts’ explanative trends; formal, affective and meaning aspects

FORMAL ASPECTS
LengthFluencyUnfilled pausesFilled pauses
“short” (n=31)“not fluent” (n=15)“many/“uhm” (n=18)
“not detailed” (n=13)“not going as a story ought to” (n=1)“long pauses” (n=22)
“enumeration” (n=5)“notches” (n=4)
“only one sentence at a time” (n=1)“stops” (n=4)
“keyword form” (n=1)“dots” (n=1)
“minimalistic” (n=1)
AFFECTIVE ASPECTS
The patient isThe reading experience is for the evaluators
“uncertain” (n=22)“confusing” (n=10)
“confused” (n=9)“annoying” (n=9)
“in doubt” (n=3)“disturbing” (n=6)
“nervous” (n=3)“boring” (n=5)
“unserious” (n=2)“tiresome” (n=2) “distracting” (n=1)
“hesitating” (n=1)“uncertain narrator, so I was uncertain of the events” (n=1)
“afraid of what to say” (n=1)“indifference affects the reader” (n=1)
“feels uncomfortable in the situation” (n=1)
“in difficulties” (n=1)
“indifferent” (n=1)
“unfocused” (n=1)
“unconcentrated” (n=1)
ASPECTS RELATED TO AESTETICS AND MEANING
AesteticsMeaning/Understanding/Interpretation
“only descriptions of pictures” (n=11)“strange” (n=5)
“not so much story” (n=6)“mystic” (n=1)
“no fantasy” (n=4)“gives no meaning” (n=3)
“superficial” (n=3)“does not understand” (“the experiment”) (n=2)
“not making things up” (n=1)“far from how I would tell” (n=1)
“too simple?” (n=1)“disturbing and imprecise in relation to my own interpretation” (n=1)
“no depth” (n=1)“not clear, what he wants to say” (n=1)
“does not catch me” (n=1)“I do not interpret in the same way” (n=1)
“mechanical” (n=1)“incorrect language, made me not understand the story” (n=1)
“not empathic enough” (n=1)“uncertain of what happens” (n=1)
“difficult to follow the story” (n=1)
“difficulty to find an understanding and a meaning” (n=1)
“lack of understanding in relation to my own interpretation” (n=1)
“difficulty in finding main story line” (n=1)
“does not know how the story should be interpreted” (n=1)
“wrong events” (n=1)
“nonsense” (n=1)
TABLE 2.

Narration to Picture 1 and 24

Narrative F (Picture 1)Narrative I (Picture 1)Narrative J (Picture 1)Narrative C (Picture 24)
I just have to figure out how to get started (You just take your time, and you can use these arrows when you need to). Yes. Does one (Danish: man) have to give the story a title? (You don’t need to … you don’t need to, you can if you want, but just (Danish altså) … just try to make a story based on the pictures)I will give it a try…okay…once upon a time, there was a boy. He had caught a frog…but when he went to bed, then, then the frog saw his chance to run away.Should I describe the pictures or tell a story? (It is your choice). Okay. Uhm…they, it is a boy and a dog, who has found a frog…uhm…that they are looking at…and then…and then they take the frog home again…even if it had a family…and a lot of siblings and a mother and farther. And I think, that was where it preferred to be. So it did not end quite happily. That was it, I think”
Are you (Danish: man) allowed to give the boy a name?…………. (…THE QUESTIONS CONTINUE…)
Language: English
Page range: 64 - 76
Published on: Nov 20, 2017
Published by: Center for Evidence-based Psychiatry
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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