Tio terapeuters berättelser om den ohjälpta patienten: En hermeneutisk studie

The thesis is a qualitative study of ten psychotherapists’ experiences of psychotherapies with unsatisfying progress. Nine therapists were interviewed and one therapist wrote a case study. The therapists were asked to tell about a completed therapy which had left them with a sense of non-changing in respect of the patient. One of the psychotherapists lacked such experience. The main part of the thesis consists of a reading of each interview which is simultaneously phenomenological (describing) and hermeneutical (interpreting). Psychoanalytical conceptions like working alliance and counter-transference are used, and narratology is employed for a piece of text. In the conclusion there is a discussion of how the therapists re-establish the normality when the expected (the progress) did not occur