title: ["This Openness Must Continue"].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim is to explore the multivariant effects of trialogue groups from the perspectives of the participants.
  
  
  METHODS
  We combined a questionnaire with focus-groups.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Communication in trialogue groups is clearly different from clinical encounters. All three groups cherish and apsire to interest for each other, good will and openness. Daily clinical routine with role prescriptions, power balance and constant pressure to act is experienced as an obstacle. Users and ex-users describe the healing effect of creating a narrative in a public environment. Trialog facilitates a discrete and independent form of communication and acquisition and production of knowledge.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Trialogue groups seem to be experimental grounds, teaching participants how to develop equal relationships. Their open atmosphere might be caused by less mutual responsibilities or pressure to act. Trialogue groups have the potential to become even more public.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik der Charite im St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus Berlin.
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: von Peter
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Vivantes Klinikum Neukölln.
authors.forename: Hans-Jochen
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Schwedler
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Sozialpsychiatrie/Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Universität Wien/Österreich.
authors.forename: Michaela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Amering
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Vivantes Klinikum Neukölln.
authors.forename: Ingrid
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Munk
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D010343:Patient Admission; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires