Hearing voices : the histories, causes, and meanings of auditory verbal hallucinations /

"The meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations, in psychiatric parlance) have been debated for thousands of years. Voice-hearing has been both revered and condemned, understood as a symptom of disease as well as a source of otherworldly commun...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCarthy-Jones, Simon, 1978-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Hallucinations and illusions > History.
Psychology, Pathological.
Auditory hallucinations.
Mental illness > History.
Hallucinations > history
Hallucinations > psychology
Auditory Perception > physiology
Hallucinations > etiology
Mental Disorders > history
Public Opinion > history
Psychopathology
Psychopathologie.
Hallucinations auditives.
Maladies mentales > Histoire.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > General.
Auditory hallucinations
Hallucinations and illusions
Mental illness
Psychology, Pathological
Auditorische hallucinaties.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I.A History of Hearing Voices: 1. From ancient Mesopotamia to the pre-Reformation world; 2. Political voices: religion, medicine and hearing voices; 3. From the birth of psychiatry to the present day
  • Part II. The Phenomenology and Lived Experience of Hearing Voices: 4. The phenomenology of hearing voices in people with psychiatric diagnoses; 5. The lived experience of hearing voices in individuals diagnosed with psychotic disorder, or: the journey from patient to non-patient; 6. Beyond disorder: religious and cross cultural perspectives; 7. The phenomenology of hearing voices in people without psychiatric diagnoses
  • Part III. The Causes of Hearing Voices: 8. Neuroscience and hearing voices: it's the brain, stupid?; 9. Neuropsychological models I: inner speech; 10. Neuropsychological models II: memory and hypervigilance; 11. The wound is peopled from world to brain and back again
  • Part IV. The Meanings of Hearing Voices: 12. The struggle for meanings
  • Conclusion: moving towards new models of hearing voices.

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