AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Delusions are classified into themes but the range of themes reported in the literature has never been examined and the

Objectives To investigate the experiences of individuals attending an online hearing voices peer support group (HVG) conducted within the UK's National Health Service (NHS). The purpose of the study.....

Within clinical environments and empirical research, discussions of atypical perceptual experiences (APE; i.e., hallucination) tend to centre on voice…

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Schizophrenia - Experiences of felt presence in first episode psychosis

Abstract. Voices in Psychosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives deepens and extends the understanding of hearing voices in psychosis in a striking way. For t

Recent therapeutic approaches to auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) exploit the person-like qualities of voices. Little is known, however, about how, why, and when AVH become personified. We aimed to investigate personification in individuals' early voice-hearing experiences. We invited Early Inte …

AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Intrusive mental images and negative schematic beliefs have been identified as maintenance and possible causal factors f

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Abstract. Introduction: Delusions frequently involve strong beliefs about, or interactions with, illusory social agents. Although such agents have been systematically described in hallucinations, few ...

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Traditional scientific publishing is slow and is often pay-walled. That is, there is normally a long delay between submitting your manuscript for publication and that manuscript being published (an…

In the past three decades, psychiatric research has increasingly focused on the early subthreshold stages of psychosis, with the aim of improving the …