Hearing voices, dissociation, and the self: A functional-analytic perspective

McEnteggart, Ciara; Barnes‐Holmes, Yvonne; Dillon, Jacqui; Egger, J.I.M.; Oliver, Joseph E.

doi:10.1080/15299732.2016.1241851

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“…When an individual grows up with a verbal history in which the relationship between the deictic-I and deictic-Others involved high levels of relational incoherence, the distinction between I-HERE-NOW and OTHERS-THERE-THEN may fail to emerge (McEnteggart, Barnes-Holmes, Dillon, Egger, & Oliver, 2017). We have argued that the outcome of such a history may manifest itself in numerous ways.…”

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Using conceptual developments in RFT to direct case formulation and clinical intervention: Two case summaries

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The current paper is part of an ongoing effort to better connect RFT with the complexities of clinical phenomena. The paper outlines two broad areas, referred to as ‘verbal functional analysis’ and the ‘drill-down’, in which we believe the basic theory is showing increasingly direct application to therapy. The paper also comprises two case summaries in which verbal functional analysis and the drill-down featured strongly in case formulation and clinical focus. Case 1 involves an adult woman who presented with paranoia, had been diagnosed with psychosis, and had an extended history of familial and other abuse. Case 2\ud describes a teenager who had been placed in foster care, following parental neglect. For comparative purposes and to provide exemplars of similar functional-analytic processes, both case summaries are presented in a similar format. The article attempts to illustrate how therapeutic work can be connected to the basic theory and argues that it will be important in future work to further expand these connections with ongoing developments in RFT

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Using conceptual developments in RFT to direct case formulation and clinical intervention: Two case summaries

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“…The emergence of a stable sense of self is a critical feature of human development and an assumed prerequisite for complex verbal behavior and psychological well-being (Dymond & Barnes, 1997;Hayes, 1984). And clinical researchers have often argued that a fractured or deviant development of the self can be associated with psychological suffering (e.g., Ingram, 1990;McEnteggart, Barnes-Holmes, Dillon, Egger, & Oliver, 2017). For RFT, a verbal self involves three functionally distinct deictic relational units: the interpersonal I-you relations, the spatial here-there relations, and the temporal now-then relations ( Barnes-Holmes, 2001).…”

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“…The development of the relationship between the verbal self and others also appears to be critical in the emergence of certain instances of psychological suffering ( Barnes-Holmes et al, 2018;McEnteggart et al, 2017). Imagine a young boy who is subject to physical and emotional abuse by a parent over a period of years.…”

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“…That is, the child may find it challenging in later life to form a close and intimate relationship with someone who is not abusive toward him in some way. In extreme cases, the levels of relational incoherence that are created by highly abusive parenting may alter the development of a coherent or stable verbal self, resulting in severe psychological manifestations such as hearing voices, dissociation, or paranoia (McEnteggart et al, 2017).…”

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A Brief Tutorial on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as Seen Through the Lens of Derived Stimulus Relations

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2018

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Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT; Hayes, Strosahl, & Wilson, 1999) has been identified as a modern behavior therapy and has a substantive body of supporting evidence that includes over 200 randomized controlled trials. ACT has been linked directly to relational frame theory (RFT; Hayes, Barnes-Holmes, & Roche, 2001)-a behavior-analytic account of human language and cognition that relies on the concept of derived stimulus relations. RFT also has a growing body of empirical evidence (Barnes-Holmes, Finn, McEnteggart, & Barnes-Holmes, in press; O'Connor, Farrell, Munnelly, & McHugh, 2017). The basic idea behind both RFT and ACT is that the evolution of human language, conceptualized as derived relational responding, creates a type of psychological suffering that is largely unique to humans. RFT constitutes the basic theory behind this assertion, and ACT, as a clinical intervention, is designed to deal with the psychological problems that human language creates for our species (Törneke, 2010; Villatte, Villatte, & Hayes, 2015). This article provides a tutorial on the links between ACT and derived stimulus relations, particularly through the lens of RFT. Although RFT is sometimes seen as providing the basic behavioral science underpinning ACT, it is perhaps more accurate to say that they have co-evolved. Thus, RFT did not give rise directly to ACT, and ACT did not backward engineer RFT, but the two are interrelated. This tutorial thus aims to articulate the clear links between the theory and the application (where they exist) and how RFT suggests functional-analytic ways in which clinically relevant behavior can be understood and manipulated. This article will first describe the conceptual

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“…That is, if 'I' is to serve as a constant locus for constructing a psychologically healthy narrative, 'I' must develop in a relationally stable and consistent environment. Where this is not the case, a deictic-I that is clearly verbally distinct from others will likely not emerge (McEnteggart, Barnes-Holmes, Dillon, Egger, & Oliver, 2017). Individuals with this type of history often report in therapy that they do not really know who they area mini-narrative that is in the broad functional class of the verbal relations in which they were raised as children.…”

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Narrative: Its Importance in Modern Behavior Analysis and Therapy

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McEnteggart

2018

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The focus on, and study of, narrative in behavior analysis has been extremely limited (but see Hineline in press, and Roche & Barnes-Holmes 2003, for notable exceptions). Narrative is, of course, important in all of the ways that Hineline, for example, outlined. In the current article, we focus on one way in which narrative serves an intensely pragmatic concern, that of understanding and treating human psychological suffering in the wider context of modern behavior therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in particular. It is important

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Hearing voices, dissociation, and the self: A functional-analytic perspective

Abstract: Acknowledgements:The current manuscript was prepared with the support of an FWO Type I Odysseus Award at Ghent University, Belgium.

Cited by 8 publications

References 59 publications

Using conceptual developments in RFT to direct case formulation and clinical intervention: Two case summaries

Using conceptual developments in RFT to direct case formulation and clinical intervention: Two case summaries

A Brief Tutorial on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as Seen Through the Lens of Derived Stimulus Relations

Narrative: Its Importance in Modern Behavior Analysis and Therapy

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