M. Ratcliffe
How anxiety induces verbal hallucinations
Ratcliffe, M.; Wilkinson, S.
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S. Wilkinson
Abstract
Verbal hallucinations are often associated with pronounced feelings of anxiety, and it has also been suggested that anxiety somehow triggers them. In this paper, we offer a phenomenological or ‘personal-level’ account of how it does so. We show how anxious anticipation of one’s own thought contents can generate an experience of their being ‘alien’. It does so by making an experience of thinking more like one of perceiving, resulting in an unfamiliar kind of intentional state. This accounts for a substantial subset of verbal hallucinations, which are experienced as falling within one’s psychological boundaries and lacking in auditory qualities.
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Ratcliffe, M., & Wilkinson, S. (2016). How anxiety induces verbal hallucinations. Consciousness and Cognition, 39, 48-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2015.11.009
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Nov 24, 2015 |
Online Publication Date | Dec 9, 2015 |
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Jan 20, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 28, 2024 |
Journal | Consciousness and Cognition |
Print ISSN | 1053-8100 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 39 |
Pages | 48-58 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2015.11.009 |
Keywords | Anxiety, Anticipation, Inner speech, Verbal hallucination. |
Related Public URLs | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26683229 |
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© 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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