The same or different? A phenomenological comparison of auditory verbal hallucinations in healthy and psychotic individuals.
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry March 2011 Kirstin Daalman, Marco P Boks, Kelly Diederen et al.
Whereas auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are most characteristic of schizophrenia, their presence has frequently been described in a continuum, ranging from severely psychotic patients to schizotypal personality disorder patients to otherwise healthy participants. It remains unclear whether AVHs at the outer borders of this spectrum are indeed the same phenomenon. Furthermore, specific...