A comparison between auditory hallucinations, interpretation of voices, and formal thought disorder in dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
Journal of clinical psychology September 1, 2023 Martin J Dorahy, Amy Nesbit, Rachael Palmer et al. 13 citations
People with dissociative identity disorder (DID) and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (SSD) both hear voices, but the experiences differ in key ways. DID participants reported voices as more internally located and generated, louder, and less controllable, and they endorsed more thought disorder symptoms. After accounting for sex, depersonalization, and childhood maltreatment, differences in voice loudness and controllability disappeared, but the DID group still reported more internal origin and derailment. The SSD group reported more distress, metaphysical beliefs about voices, incoherent thoughts, and word substitution. These latter features may reflect more psychotic processes.