ArticleSchizophrenia bulletin2022
Voice-Hearing Across The Continuum: A Phenomenology of Spiritual Voices.
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- Social functioning, loneliness, and psychosis phenotype in the general population: a network analysis perspective.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Bodily Self-Disturbances and Hallucinations in Schizophrenia.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Review
- Voice-Hearing in the General Population: The Relationship Between Inner Speech, Absorption, and Voice-Like Hallucinations.Schizophrenia bulletin · 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
- Positive psychotic symptoms as a marker of clinical severity in a transdiagnostic sample of help-seeking adolescents.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- The Shaman and Schizophrenia, Revisited.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2024Article
- Recent social stress and severity of auditory hallucinations.Schizophrenia research · 2024Article
- Phenomenological and Cognitive Features Associated With Auditory Hallucinations in Clinical and Nonclinical Voice Hearers.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Article
- Detecting anomalous experiences in the community: The Transpersonal Experiences Questionnaire (TEQ).Psychology and psychotherapy · 2023Article
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Abstract
background and hypothesisVoice-hearing in clinical and nonclinical groups has previously been compared using standardized assessments of psychotic experiences. Findings from several studies suggest that nonclinical voice-hearing is distinguished by reduced distress and increased control. However, symptom-rating scales developed for clinical populations may be limited in their ability to elucidate subtle aspects of nonclinical voices. Moreover, such experiences often occur within specific contexts and belief systems, such as spiritualism. We investigated similarities and differences in the phenomenology of clinical voice-hearing and nonclinical voice-hearer (NCVH). STUDY
designWe conducted a comparative interdisciplinary study which administered a semi-structured interview to NCVH individuals (N = 26) and psychosis patients (N = 40). The nonclinical group was recruited from spiritualist communities. We used content analysis and inductive thematic analysis to create a coding frame which was used across both spiritual and patient groups to compare phenomenological features of voice-hearing. STUDY
resultsThe findings were consistent with previous results regarding distress and control. Additionally, in the NCVH group, multiple modalities were often integrated into 1 entity, and there were high levels of associated visual imagery, and subtle differences in the location of voices relating to perceptual boundaries. Most NCVHs reported voices before encountering spiritualism, suggesting that their onset was not solely due to deliberate practice.
conclusionsNonclinical spiritual voice-hearing has important similarities and differences to voices in psychosis. Future research should aim to understand how spiritual voice-hearers cultivate and control voice-hearing after its onset, which may inform interventions for people with psychosis with distressing voices.
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