Ways of Understanding Their Own States by Patients with Chronic Mental Illness

Student: Kropocheva Natalya

Educational Programme: Psychology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2021

The subjective experiences of people with chronic mental disorders are still poorly represented in contemporary scholarship. This study seeks to fill that gap. This paper presents a study of people with chronic mental disorders' meaning-making of their illness. In this paper, meaning-making is understood as a mechanism of self-regulation aimed to give meaning to a traumatic event - a mental disorder. The work presents a theoretical study of the problem of meaning-making in psychology, as well as a qualitative empirical study of meaning-making of chronic mental illness using the method of interpretative phenomenological analysis. The empirical study involved 10 people with chronic mental illness. Its result is the description of meanings of chronic mental illness and their dynamics.

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