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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 methodological guidance is fundamental in our research group (Qualitative Psychological 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
