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Examining the Continuum Model of Auditory Hallucinations: A Review of Cognitive Mechanisms

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Faced with mounting evidence that auditory hallucinations occur both in health and in psychosis, the continuum model of psychotic symptoms has become the “accepted dogma.” Despite the dominant influence of this model, careful phenomenological comparison suggests both similarities and differences between nonpsychotic and psychotic “voice hearers.” Wider recognition of the differences, as well as similarities, of “voice hearing” and auditory hallucinations in healthy and psychotic individuals, respectively, should encourage clinicians to conduct more detailed assessments of phenomenology and cognition in patients presenting with “voices” and develop more targeted (i.e., individualized) pharmacological and/or psychosocial interventions as necessary.

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  1. School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

    Johanna C. Badcock Ph.D.

  2. Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, Graylands Hospital, Claremont, Australia

    Johanna C. Badcock Ph.D.

  3. Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Kenneth Hugdahl Ph.D.

  4. Division of Psychiatry, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

    Kenneth Hugdahl Ph.D.

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Badcock, J.C., Hugdahl, K. (2012). Examining the Continuum Model of Auditory Hallucinations: A Review of Cognitive Mechanisms. In: Blom, J., Sommer, I. (eds) Hallucinations. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0959-5_23

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