Many people live with a secret that feels almost impossible to describe. They hear speech or whispers that nobody else detects. These are not vague impressions. They can feel as solid as a friend ...

I’ve devoted my career to understanding psychosis and working with patients who experience it. A large number of people suffer from this condition—roughly 1% of the population has been given a ...

‘Hearing voices’ or ‘Auditory hallucinations’ is always seen as a sign of someone without a ‘healthy’ or ‘sound’ mind. Yet, many misunderstand what these experiences truly represent. Auditory ...

For decades, scientists have suspected that the voices heard by people with schizophrenia might be their own inner speech gone awry. Now, researchers have found brainwave evidence showing exactly how ...

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Auditory hallucinations are defined as the sensory perceptions of hearing noises without an external stimulus. (Thakur and Gupta, 2022) Psychiatric reasoning, like medical reasoning in general, tends ...