Compassion Focused Approaches to Working With Distressing Voices.

ABSTRACT: This paper presents an outline of voice-hearing phenomenology in the context of evolutionary mechanisms for self- and social- monitoring. Special attention is given to evolved systems for monitoring dominant-subordinate social roles and relationships. These provide information relating to the interpersonal motivation of others, such as neutral, friendly or hostile, and thus the interpersonal threat, versus safe, social location. Individuals who perceive themselves as subordinate and dominants as hostile are highly vigilant to down-rank threat and use submissive displays and social spacing as basic defenses. We suggest these defense mechanisms are especially attuned in some individuals with voices, in which this fearful-subordinate - hostile-dominant relationship is played out. Given the ev

SUBMITTER: Heriot-Maitland C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6367219 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature