L’expérience subjective de la psychose : récits et trajectoires de jeunes d’Auberges du coeur
The conception of psychosis and its recovery are mostly influenced by biomedical models of  mental illness. Other perspectives exist and are useful to understand the experience of psychosis,  in a more global and critique way. The phenomenology, the experiential approach and alternative  approaches are interesting and useful to increase our knowledge on psychosis experience.   This project has the purpose to explore a phenomenon which is not so known in the research  community, as well as giving a space to young adults to talk about their experience of psychosis.  We found that even though many approaches are interested in the experience of psychosis, there  are not so many spaces to talk about the suffering that comes with that experience. The question  that guided the research was: What is the meaning and the significations of psychosis for young  adults that were living in an Auberge du Coeur, and receiving services from a Premier Épisode  Psychotique (PEP) clinic? Also, what approaches of psychosis are part of their storytelling?   To answer this question, a qualitative methodology was used. Six young adults that had  experienced a psychosis and had been homeless were interviewed. We were interested in their  lifepath, their vision of the world and their perception of different services they were in touch with.  Many perspectives were developed so that the data analysis can be critique. We were interested in the concept of subjectivity, the knowledge about experiences and the concept of suffering.   The analysis shown that all the participants experienced a lot of difficulties beside the psychosis  experience, such as traumas and psychological distress. We also found that the psychosis  experience is hard to get and hard to reach for them. It is especially hard to explain how it feels  with words. In their storytelling, we see that the biomedical models are predominant. It seems like  the participants were not able to find spaces to talk about the suffering that comes with psychosis  experience, even though they receive help from community centers and public services.
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