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How anxiety induces verbal hallucinations

Ratcliffe, M.; Wilkinson, S.

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Authors

M. Ratcliffe

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.

Citation

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
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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