Abstract Background Non-affective psychosis is associated with elevated risk of suicide, self-harm, and reduced life expectancy. Symptoms of dissociation are common in non-affective psychosis, and dissociative experiences are known to be linked to multiple markers of elevated clinical risk, including sleep disturbance and negative affect. The present review represents the first comprehensive...
There is growing interest in tailoring psychological interventions for distressing voices and a need for reliable tools to assess phenomenological features which might influence treatment response. This study examines the reliability and internal consistency of the Voice Characterisation Checklist (VoCC), a novel 10-item tool which assesses degree of voice characterisation, identified as...