ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Francisco’s case by using the humanistic phenomenological method to research his lived world (Lebenswelt) of schizophrenia. This term was proposed by Tatossian to indicate the functioning or an existential style that characterizes someone who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, in addition to the diagnosis itself. Congruence is understood as the integration between the experience of the self and the expression of experience. In the phenomenological humanistic perspective, this attitude was put into practice by the researcher during the clinical encounters. In clinical encounters, the humanistic phenomenological researcher needs to be sensitive to the feelings and personal reactions that participants experience at any given moment when they are together. They need to pay attention in order to understand the experiences being described by the participant and to establish comprehensive communication. The reports of the clinical encounters consisted of the researcher’s written reports of the experience after each clinical encounter with participants.
