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Voices in Psychosis deepens and extends the understanding of hearing voices in psychosis in a striking way. For the first time, this collection brings multiple disciplinary, clinical and experiential perspectives to bear on an original and extraordinarily rich body of testimony.
List of contents
- Part One: Orientations
- 1: Angela Woods, Ben Alderson-Day, Charles Fernyhough: Voices in Psychosis: Interdisciplinary Listening
- 2: Guy Dodgson, Stephanie Common, Peter Moseley, Rebecca Lee, Ben Alderson-Day: Voices in Context: What Do Early Intervention in Psychosis Services Offer?
- 3: 'Isaac' (Pseudonym): Reflecting on Voices
- Part Two: The Experience of Hearing Voices
- 4: Gillian Allnutt: The Quickening
- 5: Ben Alderson-Day, Thomas Ward: The Sound of Fear
- 6: Åsa Jansson: Affect and Voice-Hearing: Past and Present
- 7: Jamie Moffatt: Bodily Sensations During Voice-Hearing Experiences: A Role for Interoception?
- 8: Peter Moseley, Kaja Mitrenga: The Varieties and Complexities of Multimodal Hallucinations in Psychosis
- 9: John Foxwell: Lost Agency and the Sense of Control
- 10: Adam J. Powell: Pollution and Purity: Understanding Voices as Punishment for Un-Wholly Sins
- Part Three: Approaching Experience
- 11: Hilary Powell: Voices in Psychosis: A Medieval Perspective
- 12: Tehseen Noorani: Conspiration in the Archive: Sense-Making and the Research Interview Methodology
- 13: Marco Bernini: Reading for Departure: Narrative Theory and Phenomenological Interviews on Hallucinations
- 14: Angela Woods: Relating to Leah's Voices
- Part Four: Locating Voices in Language
- 15: Sam Wilkinson, Joel Krueger: The Phenomenology of Voice-Hearing and Two Concepts of Voice
- 16: Felicity Deamer: Bridging the Gap in Common Ground When Talking about Voices
- 17: Elena Semino, Luke Collins, Zsófia Demjén: Silences in First-Person Accounts of Voice-Hearing: A Linguistic Approach
- Part Five: Spatial and Relational Dimensions
- 18: Peter Garratt: Household Ghosts and Personified Presences
- 19: Mary Coaten: Voice-Hearing and Lived Space
- 20: Patricia Waugh: Vagabond Narratives: To Be Without a Home
- 21: Christopher C.H. Cook: Leah's Voices: Reflections on Auditory Verbal Hallucinations as Spiritual and Religious Experience
- 22: Anna Luce, Nicola Barclay: 'I just feel like there's just lots of people in my head!' Reciprocal Roles and Voice-Hearing
- 23: David Dupuis: Learning to Navigate Hallucinations: Comparing Voice Control Ability During Psychosis and in Ritual Use of Psychedelics
- 24: Akiko Hart: Then I open the door and walk into their world': Crossing the Threshold and Hearing the Voice
- Part Six: Voice-Hearing and Mental Processes
- 25: Charles Fernyhough: Remembering Voices
- 26: Colleen Rollins, Jane Garrison: Voices and Reality Monitoring: How Do We Know What Is Real?
- 27: Corinne Saunders: Supernatural Presences: Medieval and Modern Narratives of Voice-Hearing
- 28: David Napthine: Maelstrom
About the author
Angela Woods is Professor of Medical Humanities and acting Director of Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University. She works at the intersections of cultural theory, psychology, philosophy and literary studies, focusing on psychosis, narrative and the dynamics of interdisciplinary collaboration. From 2012-2022 she was Co-Director of Hearing the Voice, a large, interdisciplinary research project funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Ben Alderson-Day is a research psychologist specialising in atypical development and mental health. Since completing a PhD on autism and problem-solving (University of Edinburgh, 2012), he has been based at Durham University as part of Hearing the Voice, a 10-year interdisciplinary project on the experience of voice-hearing (or auditory verbal hallucinations). His research combines phenomenological, cognitive, and neuroscientific methods, and has included topics as diverse as psychosis, reading, imagination, spirituality, sleep, and phobia.
Charles Fernyhough is a psychologist and writer. The focus of his recent scientific work has been in applying ideas from mainstream developmental psychology to the study of psychosis, particularly the phenomenon of voice-hearing. He is PI and Director of the interdisciplinary Hearing the Voice project, supported by the Wellcome Trust.
Summary
Voices in Psychosis deepens and extends the understanding of hearing voices in psychosis in a striking way. For the first time, this collection brings multiple disciplinary, clinical and experiential perspectives to bear on an original and extraordinarily rich body of testimony.
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The book will be of immense interest to mental health practitioners who face the challenges of therapeutic work with persons who hear voices. Of particular interest is the final section: four essays address the thorny question of what hearing voices can reveal about the human mind and the way it processes hallucination. In sum, the 28 essays will appeal to an audience beyond the walls of academe that will certainly include clinicians, mental health activists, and survivors.
