Auditory Verbal Hallucinations as Dialogical Experiences |
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| Authors: | Salvador Perona-Garcelán Marino Pérez-Álvarez José M. García-Montes Adolfo J. Cangas |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Institute of Biomedicine, Seville (IBiS), University Hospital Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/ University of Seville, and Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment Department, University of Seville, Seville, Spain sperona@us.es;3. Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment Department, University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain;4. Department of Psychology, University of Almeria, Almeria, Spain |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of this study is to offer a model in which auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) can be conceptualized as dialogical experiences. This model is of interest in that it integrates several different perspectives (phenomenological, cognitive, social, and evolutionary) and the findings of empirical research on the subject. Hallucinations are understood as the product of a state of consciousness in which the self is dissociated into different positions or perspectives. After reviewing the most relevant results of psychological research, dialogical self theory is proposed as the theoretical framework for understanding hallucinatory experiences. It is argued that the voices possess a series of characteristics, pragmatic properties, relationships with the voices similar to their social surroundings, and more dissociative experiences in people who experience voices than in those who do not, with which they may be considered a dialogical experience. Finally, a model attempting to integrate psychological research on AVHs within the framework of dialogical self theory is presented. |
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