Voices in Psychosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Voice-hearing experiences associated with psychosis are varied, distressing, and stigmatized. Voices in Psychosis provides an in-depth exploration of these experiences through phenomenological interviews with people who hear voices and have accessed Early Intervention in Psychosis services. The book addresses the social, clinical, and research contexts of these interviews, investigating the embodied, multisensory, affective, linguistic, spatial, and relational qualities of voice-hearing experiences. It will be an invaluable resource for academics, mental health practitioners, and the voice-hearing community.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 08 September 2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Voice-hearing experiences linked to psychosis are incredibly diverse, often distressing, poorly understood, and highly stigmatized, even within mental health settings. Voices in Psychosis addresses the pressing need for innovative approaches to listening to and interpreting these experiences. It brings together diverse disciplinary, clinical, and experiential perspectives to explore an original and extraordinarily rich body of testimony: transcripts of forty in-depth phenomenological interviews conducted with individuals who hear voices and have accessed Early Intervention in Psychosis services. The book delves into the social, clinical, and research contexts in which the interviews occurred, thoroughly examining the embodied, multisensory, affective, linguistic, spatial, and relational qualities of voice-hearing experiences. Critical reflection is woven throughout, exploring the nature, politics, and consequences of these analytic endeavors. Each chapter offers a multifaceted insight into the experiences of voice-hearers in the North East of England and their broader resonance in contexts ranging from medieval mysticism to Amazonian shamanism, from nineteenth-century novels to twenty-first-century survivor movements. By deepening and expanding our understanding of hearing voices in psychosis in a remarkable way, the book will be an invaluable resource for academics, mental health practitioners, and members of the voice-hearing community alike. An open-access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.

Weight: 656g
Dimension: 253 x 178 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780192898388