In order to gain a deeper understanding of how long-term adult schizophrenic patients perceive themselves, their carers and the care they receive in relation to how the carers perceive their patients, themselves and the care they provide, a narrative interview study, analysed using a method inspired by Ricoeur´s philosophy, was performed. The main findings of this study were that both patients and carers who saw the patients as a subject, stressed the confirming relation between the parties as an essential element of the care. The carers who saw the patient as an object did not share this opinion. They had a more restricted point of view, seeing their goal only as providing a variety of care-activities and keeping the schizophrenics at the hospital. This study also points out that confirmation is provided in the meeting between patient and carers.