Understanding the role of language in patients with psychosis and hearing impairment, experiencing auditory verbal hallucinations

Sadh, Kamaldeep; Mehta, Urvakhsh Meherwan; Muralidharan, Kesavan; Shankar, Nilima; Jain, Sanjeev

doi:10.1016/j.schres.2020.05.063

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“…This terminology variation made a systematic literature review impossible, but the phenomenon may be fairly common: Jones and Luhrmann reported 17.5% of participants heard garbled voices. Three participants in Sadh et al (2020) HN group reported voices in languages they did not know. Herbert (1984) described one participant hearing German voices which she did not understand.…”

Section: Not-understood Voicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Exploration of Multilinguals’ Voice-Hearing Experiences

Olive

Dewaele

2022

Language and Psychoanalysis

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Research on multilinguals’ voice-hearing, sometimes termed auditory-verbal hallucinations, is dominated by psychiatrists’ reports, skewing toward etic over emic approaches. Most also pre-dates developments in both voice-hearing and multilingualism research which highlight the complexity and dynamic nature of both phenomena and shows little cross-fertilisation between the two fields. This paper sits within this gap, presenting results from an in-depth interview study with ten UK-resident multilingual voice-hearers analysed via constructionist reflexive thematic analysis. A high proportion of participants described hearing voices they did not (fully) understand, challenging the dominance of the hypothesis that voice-hearing originates from misattributed inner speech. This set of experiences is presented along a spectrum with a complex array of associated emotions and subtle experiential distinctions. The relationship between language experiences, voices’ languages, and associated emotions was similarly complex and individual: participants described voices both reflecting and distorting or shifting the contexts, domains, interlocutors and feelings associated with their various languages. This has implications for therapeutic and peer support for those who are distressed by their voices, as well as opening up new avenues in voice-hearing phenomenology and aetiology.

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Section: Not-understood Voicesmentioning

confidence: 99%