Relational Therapies for People Who Hear Voices: Operationalisation and Current Status of an Emergent Group of Psychological Therapies.
Schizophrenia Bulletin January 16, 2026 Neil Thomas, Thomas Ward, Eleanor Longden et al.
A recent theme in the development of psychological interventions for hearing voices (auditory verbal hallucinations) has been the emergence of a group of overlapping approaches increasingly referred to as relational therapies: Relating Therapy (RT), Talking with Voices (TwV), and AVATAR Therapy (AT). Collaborative discussion among a group of researchers involved in developing these...
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Auditory verbal hallucinations
Avatar therapy
Psychosis
Psychotherapy
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