Auditory Hallucinations: Psychotic Symptom or Dissociative Experience?
Trauma and Serious Mental Illness January 4, 2008 Andrew Moskowitz, D. Corstens
SUMMARY While auditory hallucinations are considered a core psychotic symptom, central to the diagnosis of schizophrenia, it has long been recognized that persons who are not psychotic may also hear voices. There is an entrenched clinical belief that distinctions can be made between these groups, typically, on the basis of the perceived location or the ‘third-person’ perspective of the voices....