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5. USING INTERPRETATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS ® 75 In their study, Mawson and colleagues (2011) observed an improvement in social relationships helping with communication with the voices. Hayward and colleagues (2013) and McCarthyJones and Davidson (2013) indicated that there is adequate overlap in the relationships between the voice hearer and the voice and others. Therapeutic strategies that aim to restore social relationships are applicable in the voice and self relationship as well. Furthermore, the recovery from voice hearing includes a process. Relationships with others like friendship and love, along with relationships with colleagues, family members or friends that were discarded because of the voice hearing can or will be restored. A more assertive approach to do so facilitates joining the voice hearing group and work in group sessions. The destigmatisation in the relational concept expands the function of the group in the lives of voice hearing persons. The self-help group for voice hearers is an important element of the integrated and community psychiatric approach, which could significantly improve the quality of life of voice hearers. 5.6. LIMITATIONS Our study has several limitations. The sample was homogenous; therefore, generalisability of the results is limited. In addition, the participants attended the same psychiatric centre where the voice hearing method was applied. Other voice hearers outside of the centre may have different experiences of voice hearing and recovery from psychosis. Further limitations are based on the applied methodology. Because IPA aims to explore subjective experiences that cannot be examined with quantitative measures and IPA examines each participants’ account in great detail (Smith et al., 2009), this method is not appropriate to measure frequency and causality.
