What makes care meaningful to the person receiving it? Across different diagnoses, treatment settings, and stages of life, this question brings clinical outcomes into conversation with experiences of safety, hope, connection, and autonomy. The September issue of Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy explores these dimensions through studies of service provision, therapeutic approaches, family relationships, and psychological assessment. Świstuń and colleagues open the issue with a preliminary investigation of satisfaction with care and subjective well-being among people with schizophrenia. Their findings associate access to a broader range of community services with more favourable treatment experiences, highlighting the importance of how care is organised and experienced. A complementary perspective is offered by Staniek’s review of cognitive-behavioural approaches to negative symptoms. By examining different conceptual and therapeutic models, the paper encourages attention to psychological processes that may inform individualised treatment.