Table 3.

Transcript from a conversational, phenomenologically oriented interview

Interviewer	Patient
Does it ever become too much with all these thoughts? (referring to previously addressed experience of difficulties in concentration and of thought pressure)	Sometimes, I think the thoughts take somehow over, so I cannot get rid of them. Then the thoughts run their own race
Can you say some more about that?	It’s like the thoughts are out of my control
Can you get a feeling that the thoughts are somehow alien… or not really your thoughts?	Yes, sometimes it is like they are… when the thoughts are kind of solemn thoughts or, how to put it, then I can get the feeling that they have been sent from another place, from elsewhere. Because, if they are not mine, and they are solemn thoughts, then they must be something special
Do you have any idea from where they could have been sent?	From God
What are solemn thoughts?	They are very different from my usual thoughts and are thoughts that other people don’t think
And then you think that God is sending you these thoughts?	Yes