ArticlePsychiatry research2018
The tangled roots of inner speech, voices and delusions.
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- Neurocognitive bases of self-monitoring of inner speech in hallucination prone individuals.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A theory of consciousness from a theoretical computer science perspective: Insights from the Conscious Turing Machine.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- The psychometric properties of the Varieties of Inner Speech Questionnaire-Revised in Hebrew.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- A word is worth a thousand pictures: A 20-year comparative analysis of aberrant abstraction in schizophrenia, affective psychosis, and non-psychotic depression.Schizophrenia research · 2021Article
- A Proposed Probabilistic Method for Distinguishing Between Delusions and Other Environmental Judgements, With Applications to Psychotherapy.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The Sensory and Perceptual Scaffolding of Absorption, Inner Speech, and Self in Psychosis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- The role of inner speech on the association between childhood adversity and 'hearing voices'.Psychiatry research · 2020Article
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- The Role of Inner Speech in Executive Functioning Tasks: Schizophrenia With Auditory Verbal Hallucinations and Autistic Spectrum Conditions as Case Studies.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
The role of inner speech in the experience of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) and delusions remains unclear. This exploratory study tested for differences in inner speech (assessed via self-report questionnaire) between 89 participants with psychosis and 37 non-clinical controls. We also tested for associations of inner speech with, i) state/trait AVH, ii) AVH-severity; iii) patients' relations with their voices, and; iv) delusion-severity. Persons with psychosis had greater levels of dialogic inner speech, other people in inner speech, and evaluative/motivational inner speech than non-clinical controls. Those with state, but not trait AVH had greater levels of dialogic and evaluative/motivational inner speech than non-clinical controls. After controlling for delusions, there was a positive relation between AVH-severity and both evaluative/motivational inner speech and other people in inner speech. Participants with greater levels of dialogic inner speech reported better relations both with and between their voices. There was no association between delusion-severity and inner speech. These results highlight the importance of better understanding relations between inner speech and AVH, provide avenues for future research, and underscore the need for research into the interrelatedness of inner speech, voices and delusions, and the complexities involved in disentangling these experiences.
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