ArticlePsychological medicine2023
Varieties of felt presence? Three surveys of presence phenomena and their relations to psychopathology.
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- Exploring Experiences of People With Siblings Who Hear Voices During Adolescence: A Narrative Study.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2026Article
- Micro-phenomenology of immersion and perceived presences under DMT.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Computational spirits: a neuroscientific account of psychedelic entity encounters.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- The Role of Interoception in Felt Presence and Psychosis Risk.Psychopathology · 2026Article
- Felt Presence and Psychosis Risk in the General Population.Psychopathology · 2026Article
- Moral emotions and auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Review
- The experience of felt presence in a general population sample.The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science · 2024Article
- Felt presence and its determinants in young adults: results from three independent samples.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Social Deafferentation and the Relation Between Loneliness and Hallucinations.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Article
- Sensed Presence, Attenuated Psychosis, and Transliminality: At the Threshold of Consciousness.Psychopathology · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundExperiences of felt presence (FP) are well documented in neurology, neuropsychology and bereavement research, but systematic research in relation to psychopathology is limited. FP is a feature of sensorimotor disruption in psychosis, hypnagogic experiences, solo pursuits and spiritual encounters, but research comparing these phenomena remains rare. A comparative approach to the phenomenology of FP has the potential to identify shared and unique processes underlying the experience across these contexts, with implications for clinical understanding and intervention.
methodsWe present a mixed-methods analysis from three online surveys comparing FP across three diverse contexts: a population sample which included people with experience of psychosis and voice-hearing (study 1,
resultsHierarchical linear regression analysis indicated that FP frequency was predicted by a general tendency to experience hallucinations in all three studies, although paranoia and gender (female > male) were also significant predictors in sample 1. Qualitative analysis highlighted shared and diverging phenomenology of FP experiences across the three studies, including a role for immersive states in FP.
conclusionsThese data combine to provide the first picture of the potential shared mechanisms underlying different accounts of FP, supporting a unitary model of the experience.
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