SynthesisClinical psychology review2017
Auditory verbal hallucinations and continuum models of psychosis: A systematic review of the healthy voice-hearer literature.
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Effectiveness of Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) Adapted to a Group Format: Outcomes and Mechanisms of Change
Who cites it
89 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 224 citations in OpenAlex.
- Neither saintly nor psychotic: a narrative systematic review of the evolving Western perception of voice hearing.History of psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- The "common" experience of voice-hearing and its relationship with shame and guilt: a systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- The Phenomenon of "Hearing Voices": Not Just Psychotic Hallucinations-A Psychological Literature Review and a Reflection on Clinical and Social Health.Community mental health journal · 2019Pooled it
- Hallucinations in Children and Adolescents: An Updated Review and Practical Recommendations for Clinicians.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2019Pooled it
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- Psychological and behavioral mechanisms linking childhood trauma profiles to voice-related distress in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: latent class, mediation, and conditional process analyses.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Impaired Self-Other Voice Discrimination in Patients with Auditory-Verbal Hallucinations and Nonclinical Hallucination Proneness.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Article
- Decreased Broca-left supplementary motor area connectivity underlying auditory verbal hallucination: A resting-state NIRS study.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Activation of the inner critic increases speech illusions and negative emotional valence of perceived speech.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2026Article
- Refining mechanistic models of hallucinations for enhanced translatability.Translational psychiatry · 2025Review
- Immersive Virtual Reality-Assisted Therapy for Distressing Voices in Psychosis: Qualitative Study of Participants' and Therapists' Experiences in the Challenge Trial.JMIR serious games · 2025Article
- The victimisation experience schedule: contextualising interpersonal trauma and perceived discrimination in individuals with psychotic experiences with and without a need-for-care.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- Hearing voices and other altered perceptual experiences across psychotic, mood, and anxiety disorders: from phenomenology and mechanisms to future directions.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Review
- Multidimensionality of hallucination-like experiences: A factor structure refinement of the Launay-Slade Hallucination Scale.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2025Article
- The role of affective states in computational psychiatry.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2025Review
- Problem-sustaining patterns: redesigning the concept of mental disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Love, culture, rationality, and learning in repeated games.Frontiers in sociology · 2025Article
- EEG resting state alpha dynamics predict an individual's vulnerability to auditory hallucinations.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2024Article
- Hallucination Proneness Alters Sensory Feedback Processing in Self-voice Production.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2024Article
- Recent social stress and severity of auditory hallucinations.Schizophrenia research · 2024Article
29 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Recent decades have seen a surge of research interest in the phenomenon of healthy individuals who experience auditory verbal hallucinations, yet do not exhibit distress or need for care. The aims of the present systematic review are to provide a comprehensive overview of this research and examine how healthy voice-hearers may best be conceptualised in relation to the diagnostic versus 'quasi-' and 'fully-dimensional' continuum models of psychosis. A systematic literature search was conducted, resulting in a total of 398 article titles and abstracts that were scrutinised for appropriateness to the present objective. Seventy articles were identified for full-text analysis, of which 36 met criteria for inclusion. Subjective perceptual experience of voices, such as loudness or location (i.e., inside/outside head), is similar in clinical and non-clinical groups, although clinical voice-hearers have more frequent voices, more negative voice content, and an older age of onset. Groups differ significantly in beliefs about voices, control over voices, voice-related distress, and affective difficulties. Cognitive biases, reduced global functioning, and psychiatric symptoms such as delusions, appear more prevalent in healthy voice-hearers than in healthy controls, yet less than in clinical samples. Transition to mental health difficulties is increased in HVHs, yet only occurs in a minority and is predicted by previous mood problems and voice distress. Whilst healthy voice-hearers show similar brain activity during hallucinatory experiences to clinical voice-hearers, other neuroimaging measures, such as mismatch negativity, have been inconclusive. Risk factors such as familial and childhood trauma appear similar between clinical and non-clinical voice-hearers. Overall the results of the present systematic review support a continuum view rather than a diagnostic model, but cannot distinguish between 'quasi' and 'fully' dimensional models. Healthy voice-hearers may be a key resource in informing transdiagnostic approaches to research of auditory hallucinations.
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