Sam Wilkinson
The Representation of Agents in Auditory Verbal Hallucinations
Wilkinson, Sam; Bell, Vaughan
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Vaughan Bell
Abstract
Current models of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) tend to focus on the mechanisms underlying their occurrence, but often fail to address the content of the auditory experience. In other words, they tend to ask why there are AVHs at all, instead of asking why, given that there are AVHs, they have the properties that they have. One such property, which has been largely overlooked and which we will focus on here, is why the voices are often experienced as coming from (or being the voices of) agents, and often specific, individualised agents. In this article, we argue not only that the representation of agents is important in accurately describing many cases of AVH, but also that deeper reflection on what is involved in the representation of agents has potentially vital consequences for our aetiological understanding of AVH, namely, for understanding how and why AVHs come about.
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Wilkinson, S., & Bell, V. (2016). The Representation of Agents in Auditory Verbal Hallucinations. Mind and Language, 31(1), 104-126. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12096
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Feb 2, 2016 |
Publication Date | Feb 1, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Feb 18, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | Mind and Language |
Print ISSN | 0268-1064 |
Electronic ISSN | 1468-0017 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 31 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 104-126 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12096 |
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© 2016 The Authors. Mind & Language published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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