The role of emotion regulation in auditory hallucinations

Emerging Perspectives From the Hearing Voices Movement: Implications for Research and Practice

“…This includes, eg, the increasing evidence for a continuum model of voices and similar experiences 30 ; the robust associations between voices and traumatic; adversarial life events in both clinical and nonclinical populations 31–34 ; the suggestion that voice content is psychologically significant and meaningful 3,11,35 ; the finding that greater levels of emotional suppression are associated with more frequent and troublesome voice-hearing experiences 36 ; the commonality in structural voice characteristics between psychotic patients, nonpsychotic patients, and nonclinical groups 18,22,37 ; comparable patterns of functional activation in clinical and nonclinical voice-hearers 38 ; links between voice-hearing and mental health problems being primarily determined by an individual’s interpretation of and/or emotional response to their voices 3,39,40 ; and the development of relational approaches to voice-hearing within cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). 41,42 …”

Cognitive emotion regulation in patients with schizophrenia: Evidence for effective reappraisal and distraction

“…These studies did not yield consistent results. Two studies indicate that patients with schizophrenia use suppression more frequently than reappraisal compared to healthy controls ( van der Meer et al, 2009;Kimhy et al, 2012), and three other studies reported no differences in the habitual use of reappraisal between patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls ( Henry et al, 2008;Perry et al, 2011;Badcock et al, 2011).…”

Dealing with feeling: Specific emotion regulation skills predict responses to stress in psychosis

“…These difficulties are associated with an array of psychotic symptoms and outcomes. For example, several studies indicated that greater use of suppression went along with an increase in auditory hallucinations (Badcock et al, 2011;Moritz et al, 2010). Henry et al (2009) found the tendency to use suppression strategies to correlate with odd beliefs, unusual perceptual experiences and paranoid ideation.…”