Beliefs about hearing voices |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA;2. Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland;3. Department of Mental Health Law & Policy, University of South Florida, Florida, USA;4. Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA;1. Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, C/ Roc Boronat, 138, 08018 Barcelona, Spain;2. FIDMAG Germanes Hospitalàries Research Foundation, C/ Dr. Antoni Pujadas, 38, 08830 Sant Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain;3. CIBERSAM, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, Spain;4. Benito Menni Complex Assistencial de Salut Mental, C/ Dr. Antoni Pujadas, 38, 08830 Sant Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain;5. Hospital Sant Rafael, Passeig de la Vall d''Hebron, 107, 08035 Barcelona, Spain;6. Parc de Salut Mar, Passeig Marítim 25-29, 08003 Barcelona, Spain;7. Centro Neuropsiquiátrico N. S. del Carmen, Camino del Abejar, 100, 50190 Zaragoza, Spain;8. Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies and Research, ICREA, Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain |
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| Abstract: | People who experience auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) vary in whether they believe their AVHs are self-generated or caused by external agents. It remains unclear whether these differences are influenced by the “intensity” of the voices, such as their frequency or volume, or other aspects of their phenomenology. We examined 35 patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who experienced AVHs. Patients completed a detailed structured interview about their AVHs, including beliefs about their cause. In response, 20 (57.1%) reported that their AVHs were self-generated, 9 (25.7%) were uncertain, and 6 (17.1%) reported that their AVHs were caused by external agents. Several analytical approaches revealed little or no evidence for associations between either AVH intensity or phenomenology and beliefs about the AVH’s cause; the evidence instead favoured the absence of these associations. Beliefs about the cause of AVHs are thus unlikely to be explained solely by the phenomenological qualities of the AVHs. |
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| Keywords: | Auditory verbal hallucination Belief Delusion Hallucination Insight Phenomenology Psychosis |
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