Negative voice-content is the best sole predictor of whether the hearer of an auditory-verbal
hallucination will experience distress/impairment necessitating contact with mental health …

Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH)―experienced as voice hearing independent of a
corresponding external sound source―are a cardinal symptom of psychosis. Approximately …

Elevated negative affect is an established link between minor stressors and psychotic
symptoms. Less clear is why people with psychosis fail to regulate distressing emotions …

Hallucinations are a common feature of psychosis, yet access to effective psychological
treatment is limited. The Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences for First-Episode …

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for voice-hearing (ie, auditory verbal hallucinations;
AVH) has, at best, small to moderate effects. One possible reason for this limited efficacy is …

Arousal and the way it is coped with are relevant to the emergence of psychotic symptoms.
Heart rate variability (HRV) stems from autonomic responses to environmental demands …

According to the predictive processing framework, perception is geared to represent the
environment in terms of embodied action opportunities as opposed to objective truth. Here …

Severe emotional disturbances such as anxiety and depression have been closely related to
aberrant attentional processing of emotional stimuli. However, this has been little studied in …

Objectives There is a paucity of psychological treatments for visual hallucinations (VH). A
key aspect in the psychological treatment of hallucination‐related distress is normalisation to …

Auditory-verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are frequent and disabling symptoms, which can be
refractory to conventional psychopharmacological treatment in more than 25% of the cases …