Psychotic experiences (PE) are common in the general population, in particular in
childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. PE have been shown to be associated with …

Hallucinations constitute one of the 5 symptom domains of psychotic disorders in DSM-5,
suggesting diagnostic significance for that group of disorders. Although specific featural …

Background Two discourses exist in mental health research and practice. The first focuses
on the limitations associated with disability arising from mental disorder. The second focuses …

A number of studies have explored hallucinations as complex experiences involving
interactions between psychological, biological, and environmental factors and mechanisms …

Recent decades have seen a surge of research interest in the phenomenon of healthy
individuals who experience auditory verbal hallucinations, yet do not exhibit distress or need …

Much of the research on visual hallucinations (VHs) has been conducted in the context of
eye disease and neurodegenerative conditions, but little is known about these phenomena …

Inner speech—also known as covert speech or verbal thinking—has been implicated in
theories of cognitive development, speech monitoring, executive function, and …

Background Auditory hallucinations—or voices—are a common feature of many psychiatric
disorders and are also experienced by individuals with no psychiatric history. Understanding …

Reality monitoring processes are necessary for discriminating between internally generated
information and information that originated in the outside world. They help us to identify our …

A philosophical account of the structure of experience and how it depends on interpersonal
relations, developed through a study of auditory verbal hallucinations and thought insertion …