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Hallucinatory voices shaped by local culture
Jul 25, 2016 | Brain & Behavior
People suffering from schizophrenia may hear voices auditory hallucinations differently depending on their cultural context, according to new Stanford research.
In the United States, the voices are harsher, and in Africa and India, more benign, said Tanya Luhrmann, a Stanford professor of anthropology and first author of the article in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
The experience of hearing voices is complex and varies from person to person, according to Luhrmann. The new research suggests that the voice-hearing experiences are influenced by ones particular social and cultural environment and this may have consequences for treatment.
In an interview, Luhrmann said that American clinicians sometimes treat the voices heard by people with psychosis as if they are the uninteresting neurological byproducts of disease which should be ignored. Our work found that people with serious psychotic disorder in different cultures have different voice-hearing experiences. That suggests that the way people pay attention to their voices alters what they hear their voices say. That may have clinical implications.
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Tobin S.
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(35,393 posts)Different researchers.
Now for the biggie: Why?
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