Auditory Hallucinations: Psychotic Symptom or Dissociative Experience?

Trauma and psychosis: The mediating role of self-concept clarity and dissociation

“…Lastly, the use of a heterogeneous psychosis sample may explain differences between the current results and those obtained previously, where the focus has been on hallucinations only (Varese et al, 2012a). Given the lack of data concerning the symptom-profile of the current study's participants, differences between these results and those reported elsewhere might be explained by dissociation being specifically implicated in the link between trauma and hallucinations (Kilcommons and Morrison, 2005;Moskowitz and Corstens, 2008).…”

The relationship between dissociation and voices: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis

“…Bentall, de Sousa, Varese, Wickham, Sitko, Haarmans, & Read, 2014;Bentall , Wickham, Shelvin & Varese, 2012;McCarthyJones, 201, Shelvin, Dorahy & Adamson, 2007. For example, Moskowitz and Corstens (2008) proposed that AVHs might be regarded as trauma-induced dissociative experiences. Similarly Longden, Madill and Waterman (2012) also proposed that voices could be conceptualised as dissociated or disowned components of the self, arising from the failure to integrate adverse and traumatic sensory and psychological experiences into the context of the self.…”

Dissociation mediates the relationship between childhood trauma and hallucination-proneness

“…Moskowitz & Corstens, 2007 ;Moskowitz et al 2009 ;Anketell et al 2010). Dissociation has been defined as the ' lack of normal integration of thoughts, feelings and experiences into the stream of consciousness and memory ' (Bernstein & Putnam, 1986, p. 727) and represents the core component of DSM-IV diagnosis of dissociative disorders.…”

“…Moskowitz & Corstens, 2007 ;Anketell et al 2010). This hypothesis, however, has not been empirically tested to date.…”