Phenomenology of auditory verbal hallucination in schizophrenia: An erroneous perception or something else?
Schizophrenia research March 1, 2024 Josef Parnas, Janne-Elin Yttri, Annick Urfer-Parnas 28 citations
Auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia differ from ordinary perception in several ways, and only a minority of patients experience them as localized externally. The official definition of hallucinations as a perception without object does not fit the lived experience of these voices. Auditory verbal hallucinations are associated with anomalies of subjective experience known as self-disorders, and they should be understood as a product of self-fragmentation. This has implications for how hallucinations are defined, how clinical interviews are conducted, how psychotic states are conceptualized, and what targets are pursued in pathogenetic research.