Psychology and psychotherapy
December 7, 2025
Sepinood Noroozi, Nastaran Doroud, Eleanor Longden et al.
Hearing voices is often experienced as being controlling, powerful, threatening or critical. This study aimed to examine the lived experiences of autonomy among people who hear voices. Employing a qualitative design, this study sought to examine the personal narratives and meaning-making processes of voice hearers and gain deeper insights into the nuanced ways autonomy is experienced,...
Psychology and psychotherapy
May 11, 2025
Charles Heriot-Maitland, Tobyn Bell
1 citation
This paper aims to build on a recent theoretical and empirical review of CFT for psychosis by outlining a more detailed account of how voice-hearing perceptions may be generated and triggered, and the implications for clinical practice. It also aims to provide a detailed and practical illustration of how CFT for voice-hearing is applied in therapy. This paper summarises the evolution-informed...
Psychology and psychotherapy
March 1, 2025
Charlotte Aynsworth, Felicity Waite, Samuel Sargeant et al.
4 citations
One in three people with psychosis experience visions. However, little is known about what people see, and current treatments have limited benefits. To improve the understanding and treatment of visions, this study explored the phenomenology of visions in people with psychosis. Twelve people with psychosis participated in semi-structured interviews. Reflective thematic analysis was used. Three...
Psychology and psychotherapy
September 1, 2011
David Childs
5 citations
Does mindfulness offer more to psychology than a useful therapeutic technique? This paper argues that it can also establish a state of presence which is understood in relation to the practice of phenomenology. Mindfulness is then both linked to a Western intellectual tradition and offers that tradition a systematic method. This is an opening for psychological investigation of the non-conceptual...
Psychology and psychotherapy
June 2011
Johannes Michalak, Anne Hölz, Tobias Teismann
In mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), it is proposed that training in mindfulness should reduce the tendency of formerly depressed patients to enter into ruminative thinking, thus reducing their risk of depressive relapse. However, data showing that rumination is associated with depressive relapse are lacking. In an uncontrolled study with 24 formerly depressed patients, rumination was...
Psychology and psychotherapy
June 2007
Tara Kingston, Barbara Dooley, Anthony Bates et al.
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a new group-based intervention for prevention of relapse in recurrent depression which has not been scientifically evaluated regarding its clinical effectiveness for ameliorating residual depressive symptoms following a depressive episode. The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of MBCT in reducing residual depressive symptoms in...