Background: Little is known about changes in the prevalence of psychiatric disorders
between childhood and adolescence, and adolescence and adulthood. Methods: We …

Recent research shows that psychotic symptoms, or psychotic-like experiences (PLEs), are
reported not only by psychosis patients but also by healthy members of the general …

Objective: Whereas auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are most characteristic of
schizophrenia, their presence has frequently been described in a continuum, ranging from …

BackgroundParanoia is an unregarded but pervasive attribute of human populations. In this
study we carried out the most comprehensive investigation so far of the demographic …

A resurgence of interest in inner speech as a core feature of human experience has not yet
coincided with methodological progress in the empirical study of the phenomenon. The …

Objective: Population-based surveys have confirmed that psychotic-like experiences are
prevalent in the community. However, it is unclear if these experiences are associated with …

BackgroundEvidence is accumulating that child sexual abuse (CSA) is associated with
many psychiatric disorders in adulthood. This paper uses the detailed information available …

Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to
the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the …

Background. From clinical work and research it is clear that people suffering from borderline
personality disorder (BPD) often complain of psychotic symptoms including hallucinations …

Objective Numerous studies of both clinical and large-scale population based samples have
demonstrated that adverse childhood events are risk factors for subsequent psychosis. This …