TY - CHAP
T1 - Introduction
AU - McCarthy-Jones, Simon
AU - Strauss, Clara
AU - Hayward, Mark
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - For millennia, people have been hearing voices that others cannot hear. Like the days of our lives, the content of these voices may be surprising and diverse, echoingly repetitive, or somewhere in between. The hearer may be spoken to, about, or not referred to at all; derided or supported by a voice whose identity may be known or unknown; who may shout, whisper or silently communicate from perceived locations in the outside world or inside the seemingly secure citadel of their own head or body. Such experiences, referred to in the research literature as ‘auditory verbal hallucinations’, have varyingly enlightened or encumbered people including Socrates, the prophets of the Old Testament, Joan of Arc, William Cowper, John Nash and the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson (McCarthy-Jones, 2012 ).
AB - For millennia, people have been hearing voices that others cannot hear. Like the days of our lives, the content of these voices may be surprising and diverse, echoingly repetitive, or somewhere in between. The hearer may be spoken to, about, or not referred to at all; derided or supported by a voice whose identity may be known or unknown; who may shout, whisper or silently communicate from perceived locations in the outside world or inside the seemingly secure citadel of their own head or body. Such experiences, referred to in the research literature as ‘auditory verbal hallucinations’, have varyingly enlightened or encumbered people including Socrates, the prophets of the Old Testament, Joan of Arc, William Cowper, John Nash and the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson (McCarthy-Jones, 2012 ).
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84960266210&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315753829
M3 - Foreword/postscript/introduction
AN - SCOPUS:84960266210
SN - 9780415640114
T3 - Explorations in mental health series
SP - 1
EP - 4
BT - Psychological approaches to understanding and treating auditory hallucinations
A2 - Hayward, Mark
A2 - Strauss, Clara
A2 - McCarthy-Jones, Simon
PB - Taylor & Francis
CY - London ; New York
ER -