Special supplement introduction: hallucinations

Charles Fernyhough; Flavie Waters

doi:10.1093/schbul/sbu043

Special supplement introduction: hallucinations

Schizophr Bull. 2014 Jul;40 Suppl 4(Suppl 4):S195-7. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbu043.

Authors

Charles Fernyhough¹, Flavie Waters

Affiliation

¹ Hearing the Voice, c/o School of Education, Durham University, Durham, UK; Department of Psychology, Durham University, Durham, UK; These authors contributed equally to this work. c.p.fernyhough@durham.ac.uk.

Abstract

This Special Supplement presents reports from 11 working groups of the interdisciplinary International Consortium on Hallucination Research meeting in Durham, UK, September 2013. Topics include psychological therapies for auditory hallucinations, culture and hallucinations, hallucinations in children and adolescents, visual hallucinations, interdisciplinary approaches to the phenomenology of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), AVHs in persons without need for care, a multisite study of the PSYRATS instrument, subtypes of AVHs, the Hearing Voices Movement, Research Domain Criteria for hallucinations, and cortical specialization as a route to understanding hallucinations.

Keywords: hallucinations; interdisciplinary; psychosis.

Publication types

Introductory Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Congresses as Topic
Hallucinations / psychology*
Hallucinations / therapy
Humans
Psychotic Disorders / psychology*
Psychotic Disorders / therapy

Grants and funding

098455/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom