Ouvir vozes: um estudo sobre a troca de experiências em ambiente virtual

Abstract

Through studying exchanges of experiences among people who hear voices in a virtual environment, this paper explored the ways in which these people create strategies for sharing their experiences in a group, thereby searching for an alternative to psychiatric knowledge regarding verbal auditory hallucination. It described the creation of the Intervoice network and its migration to the virtual environment. Use of netnography demonstrated that this environment is appropriate for exploring exchanges of experiences between people who hear voices and emphasizing the relationship with their use of medication and the ways in which they deal with the voices. This study also observed how people who hear voices use the virtual environment to create social bonds and a new way of existing in the world.Keywords: Virtual environment. Hearing voices. Peer support. IntroductionOur interest in the theme is related to our previous experience in providing care for psychotic patients assisted in different institutional contexts and who experience the phenomenon of auditory verbal hallucination. Our experience includes the research carried out in the This experience has indicated that many people who hear voices learn to live with them in a positive way, which contributes to demonstrate that the connection between the experience of hearing voices and the presence of a mental disorder is not that solid 1,2 . The hallucinatory COMUNICAÇÃO SAÚDE EDUCAÇÃO 2004; 18(50): experience in the population in general has been discussed since the pioneering study conducted by Sidgewick in 1894 3 -which indicated that 8% of men and 12% of women, within a sample of 17,000 people, had already had some hallucinatory experience -up to the study carried out by Tien (1991) 3 -who found a prevalence of hallucinatory phenomena in 10-15% (2.3% heard voices) within a sample of 18,572 people.Although traditionally classified by the Psychopathology manuals as an alteration of sensory perception, auditory verbal hallucination -the technical form of designating the experience of "hearing voices" -had already been noticed by some psychiatrists in the 19 th century and in the beginning of the 20 th century (Baillarger, Seglas, de Clérambault, Ey, for example). To these scholars, auditory verbal hallucination should be more appropriately related to some other sphere of the psyche, such as language or the control of one's own actions 4 . Contemporary studies in cognitive neuroscience 5 , phenomenology 6 and neurophenomenology 7 seem to confirm this intuition, indicating that the experience of hearing voices derives from transformations in the most basic, pre-reflective aspects, as well as in aspects of self-conscience, more specifically regarding the feeling of agency: the subject attributes to others the origin of motor or mental actions that he himself generated. This understanding provides important clinical clues and suggests that creating conditions so that the subject who hears voices is able to appropriate his/her hallucinatory experiences, re-signifying t...

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