Voice hearing (VH) is often regarded as pathognomic for schizophrenia. The purpose of this
article is to review and integrate historical, clinical, epidemiological, and phenomenological …

This report from the International Consortium on Hallucinations Research considers the
current status and future directions in research on psychological therapies targeting auditory …

Abstract The international Hearing Voices Movement (HVM) is a prominent mental health
service-user/survivor movement that promotes the needs and perspectives of experts by …

Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental illness that poses significant challenges.
While many pharmacological and psychosocial interventions are available, many treatment …

Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis provides clinicians with a comprehensive cognitive model
that can be applied to all patients with schizophrenia and related disorders in order to aid …

Auditory hallucinations (AH) are a common and distressing experience and patients report
distress reduction to be a priority. Relating Therapy adopts a symptom-specific and …

Although people who hear voices may dialogue with them, they are regularly caught in
destructive communication patterns that disturb social functioning. This article presents an …

The interpersonal nature of the voice‐hearing experience has been highlighted in recent
studies investigating whether social processes (or 'schemas') that guide interpersonal …

Negative voice-content is the best sole predictor of whether the hearer of an auditory-verbal
hallucination will experience distress/impairment necessitating contact with mental health …

Cognitive models of auditory hallucinations are being elaborated in an attempt to more fully
understand the variables that determine the distress often experienced by hearers. There is …