Experiences of hearing voices: analysis of a novel phenomenological survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Auditory hallucinations--or voices--are a common feature of many psychiatric disorders and are also experienced by individuals with no psychiatric history. Understanding of the variation in subjective experiences of hallucination is central to psychiatry, yet systematic empirical research on the phenomenology of auditory hallucinations remains scarce. We aimed to record a detailed and diverse collection of experiences, in the words of the people who hear voices themselves.

Methods

We made a 13 item questionnaire available online for 3 months. To elicit phenomenologically rich data, we designed a combination of open-ended and closed-ended questions, which drew on service-user perspectives and approaches from phenomenological psychiatry, psychology, and medical huma

SUBMITTER: Woods A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4580735 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature