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ACKNOWLEDGMENIS
First and above all I am truly grateful to my supervisor, József Rácz, for all
his help and support throughout my PhD years. Without knowing me at all,
József agreed to be my supervisor during MA thesis and helped me get into
the PhD program and he supported me all along the way to be able to learn
many methods and tricks of doing gualitative psychology research. Ihanks
to his expertise and proficiency I have learned a lot by working with him and
I have got all the professional help that I missed before.
I would like to express my gratitude to Zsolt Demetrovics, the Head of
Doctoral School of Psychology for his encouragement and support.
I am also grateful to Judit Nóra Pintér whose philosophical knowledge
helped us to understand better and to immerse in phenomenology which was
essential during the application of the Interpretative Phenomenological
Analysis.
I would like express my gratitude to Zsuzsa Kaló, whose work and metho¬
dological guidance is fundamental in our research group (Qualitative Psy¬
chological Research Group).
I also need to mention Anna V. Gyarmathy who has led me through and
supported me on the dark and mostly hopeless ways of how to get published
qualitative papers in a quantitative-focused scientific world. Her perseverance
and enthusiasm helped me overcome many paper rejections.
I would also like to thank the members of the Department of Counselling
Psychology, especially Erzsébet Vajda, besides her administrative help she
always had time to have personal conversations.
Iam truly grateful for the members of Blue Point Foundation, especially
for Ferenc David and Menyhért Lencse, and the members of MRE KIMM
Rackereszturi Drogterapias Otthon, especially, Karoly Centgraf, who helped
me recruit potential interviewees. I am also truly grateful for Marta Kiss
(Awakening Foundation) who let us to use her research material and helped
us with her expertise during the voice hearing research project (Study 4).
I would like to give a special thanks to all the interviewees, who were the
participants in my studies. It was a great honour talking to them, and to get
to know their inspiring stories. I feel lucky, because I had a chance to listen