The role of characterisation in everyday voice engagement and AVATAR therapy dialogue.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Voices are commonly experienced as communication with a personified 'other' with ascribed attitudes, intentionality and personality (their own 'character'). Phenomenological work exploring voice characterisation informs a new wave of relational therapies. To date, no study has investigated the role of characterisation in behavioural engagement with voices or within psychological therapy for distressing voices.

Methods

Baseline characterisation (the degree to which the voice is an identifiable and characterful entity) of the dominant voice was rated (high, medium or low) using a newly developed coding framework, for n = 60 people prior to starting AVATAR therapy. Associations between degree of characterisation and (i) everyday behavioural engagement with voices (Th

SUBMITTER: Ward T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9811344 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature