Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity: Studies of Verbal Hallucinations

By David Ames. 2000

155 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Ivan Leudar, Philip Thomas Brunner-Routledge, £15.99, pp 240 ISBN 0 415 14787 5 ![][1] Rating: ![Graphic][2] ![Graphic][3] ![Graphic][4] When I began training in psychiatry in 1982 I was taught that the form of patients' unusual experiences was usually more important than the content when making a psychiatric diagnosis. Despite this, one patient sticks in my mind. This man had shot himself in the roof of the mouth in an attempt to rid himself of chastising voices which he thought came from the head of his late wife's doctor attached to his shoulder. It seemed to me that the content of these experiences might have been important in determining his behaviour. Leudar and Thomas would have sympathised with my … [1]: /embed/graphic-1.gif [2]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif [3]: /embed/inline-graphic-2.gif [4]: /embed/inline-graphic-3.gif

Citations in the corpus

• Alien voices and inner dialogue: towards a developmental account of auditory verbal hallucinations (2004, unknown): “As a number of authors have noted (Hoffman, 1986; Leudar & Thomas, 2000; Stephens & Graham, 2000), this 'alien yet self' paradox presents a puzzle for any account of AVHs that depends for its explanatory power on a confusion between self and other.”