Editorial: Hallucinations: New Interventions Supporting People with Distressing Voices and/or Visions

Frontiers in Psychology

Simon McCarthy-Jones¹ 

关键词: psychosis;    schizophrenia;    post-traumatic stress disorder;    cognitive behavioral therapy;    traumatology;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01418

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Hallucinations can occur across the five sensory modalities (auditory, visual, olfactory, tactile, and gustatory). Whilst they have the potential to be benign or even highly valued (Romme et al., 2009; Sommer et al., 2010), they can often be devastating experiences associated with distress, impaired social, and occupational functioning, self-harm and suicide (McCarthy-Jones et al., 2013; Kjelby et al., 2015). Those who experience hallucinations in this latter manner may do so within the context of a wide range of psychiatric diagnoses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder (Blom and Sommer, 2011; Larøi et al., 2012; McCarthy-Jones, 2012). The only routinely available interventions for people distressed by hallucinations are antipsychotic drugs, which date from the introduction of chlorpromazine in the 1950s, and manualized cognitive behavioral therapy, which originated in the 1990s. These interventions do not help all people distressed by hallucinations (Lecrubier et al., 2007; Sommer et al., 2012; Jauhar et al., 2014; van der Gaag et al., 2014), and in the case of antipsychotic medication, come with notable side-effects. There has hence been great interest in new interventions to support people distressed by hallucinations.

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