Anorektiska patienters upplevelse av tvångsvård enligt LPT

The aim of this study was to explore anorexic patients' experiences of compulsory treatment within a psychological frame, to gain a deeper understanding of their experience. Semistructured interviews were applied with eleven persons. Thematic analysis was implemented to analyse the collected data, which allowed the authors to distinguish nine different themes. The main results of the study indicated that the participants all described negative or ambivalent feelings, and that feelings of being violated and powerless were also present sometime during their treatment. The participants also described their compulsory treatment as a process in which they, at best, felt an increasing strive for greater personal responsibility for the eating disorder and the recovery from it. In some cases though, the experience of fight persisted during treatment. The participants discussed some positive aspects of the compulsory treatment such as relief for people close to them, and the opportunity to let someone else take the lead in the constant inner struggle between the healthy and the anorexic part. The participants put an emphasis on the lifesaving function of the compulsory treatment. The results also showed the significance of thorough information, especially in the beginning of treatment as the participants described that information increased feelings of safety and predictability. Finally, the experience of the compulsory treatment was described as a concretisation, where the treatment almost got a concrete meaning. The description of the inner experience was also sometimes depicted in a wordless, vagueness in the verbal statements which could possibly be understood as poor mentalizing.