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Hearing voices: Explanations and implications.

Year: 2004

Type: article

Abstract: Integrating information on voice hearing from multiple disciplines and perspectives, we review current explanatory models and their implications for intervention strategies. Far from always signifying a mental illness, voice hearing may result from other causes, including drug side effects, brain lesions, and culturally-sanctioned phenomena. Accordingly, a wide range of assessment, intervention, and self-management strategies are available and appropriate. We conclude that by offering a diversity of treatment options, eliciting patients' causal theories, and incorporating these into an individualized treatment strategy, clinicians are likely to help clients control the distressing aspects of the voices, minimize stigma and discrimination, and make meaning of the experience.

Source: Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal

DOI: 10.2975/27.2004.219.227

Authors: Jennifer Boyd Ritsher, Alicia Lucksted, Poorni G. Otilingam, Monica Grajales

Institutions: San Francisco VA Medical Center, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Veterans Health Administration

Language: English

Topic: Hallucinations in medical conditions

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute of Mental Health