Simon McCarthy-Jones

Biographic Data

ID7520857
NAMESimon McCarthy-Jones
GIVEN NAMESSimon
FAMILY NAMEMcCarthy-Jones
SIGNATUREMCCARTHY-JONES S
AFFILIATIONSMacquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Hate as Poison and Cure? Reassessing our Hatred of Hatred

    Open AccessSimon McCarthy‐Jones, Simon McCarthy-Jones et al.ARTICLEEmotion Review2026

    Hatred is widely condemned as an unambiguous evil, yet this paper asks whether it might also serve constructive functions. Drawing on philosophical, psychological, and evolutionary perspectives, we argue that hate evolved as an adaptive response to threats of domination and to challenges to shared meaning systems posed by individuals or groups. Hate fulfills this role by motivating action, sustaining focus, fostering coalitional cohesion, providi…

  • The varieties of inner speech questionnaire – Revised (Visq-R)

    Open AccessBen Alderson-Day, Kaja Mitrenga et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2018

    Inner speech is a common experience for many but hard to measure empirically. The Varieties of Inner Speech Questionnaire (VISQ) has been used to link everyday phenomenology of inner speech - such as inner dialogue - to various psychopathological traits. However, positive and supportive aspects of inner speech have not always been captured. This study presents a revised version of the scale - the VISQ-R - based on factor analyses in two large sam…

  • Investigating the Lived Experience of Recovery in People Who Hear Voices

    Open AccessAdèle de Jager, Paul Rhodes et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2016

    Although there is evidence of both clinical and personal recovery from distressing voices, the process of recovery over time is unclear. Narrative inquiry was used to investigate 11 voice-hearers’ lived experience of recovery. After a period of despair/exhaustion, two recovery typologies emerged: (a) turning toward/empowerment, which involved developing a normalized account of voices, building voice-specific skills, integration of voices into dai…

  • Hearing the Unheard

    Open AccessSimon McCarthy‐Jones, Simon McCarthy-Jones et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2015

    This paper explores the experiences of women who "hear voices" (auditory verbal hallucinations). We begin by examining historical understandings of women hearing voices, showing these have been driven by androcentric theories of how women's bodies functioned leading to women being viewed as requiring their voices be interpreted by men. We show the twentieth century was associated with recognition that the mental violation of women's minds (repres…

  • Shot through with voices

    Open AccessBen Alderson-Day, Simon McCarthy‐Jones et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2014

    Inner speech is a commonly experienced but poorly understood phenomenon. The Varieties of Inner Speech Questionnaire (VISQ; McCarthy-Jones & Fernyhough, 2011) assesses four characteristics of inner speech: dialogicality, evaluative/motivational content, condensation, and the presence of other people. Prior findings have linked anxiety and proneness to auditory hallucinations (AH) to these types of inner speech. This study extends that work by exa…

  • When soft voices die

    Simon McCarthy‐Jones, Simon McCarthy-Jones et al.ARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2013

    Understandings of auditory verbal hallucinations (also referred to as “hearing voices”), and help for people distressed by them, are dominated by a biomedical framework. Yet, many people who have sought help for the distress and/or impairment caused by hearing voices express dissatisfaction with treatment solely within this framework, highlighting the need for a more rounded, biopsychosocial-spiritual approach. This paper examines the neglected r…

  • More than words? Hypomanic personality traits, visual imagery and verbal thought in young adults

    Open AccessSimon McCarthy‐Jones, Simon McCarthy-Jones et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2012

  • The varieties of inner speech

    Open AccessSimon McCarthy‐Jones, Simon McCarthy-Jones et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2011

  • Seeing the unseen, hearing the unsaid

    Simon McCarthy‐Jones, Simon McCarthy-JonesARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2011

    Psychologists referring to St Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) in the context of hallucinations have neither accurately portrayed his conceptions of such experiences nor critically examined his alleged personal experience of them. This paper first examines Aquinas’ conception of what are termed “hallucinations.” It is shown that he allowed both natural and supernatural explanations for such experiences, with both accounts acknowledging an underlying ph…