The phenomenology of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia and the challenge from pseudohallucinations

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ID15529901
AuthorsPablo López-Silva (0000-0001-7457-7724, Millennium Institute for Research in Depression and Personality, corresponding author), Álvaro Cavieres (0000-0001-6016-0733, University of Valparaíso), Clara Humpston (0000-0001-5132-1531, University of Birmingham)
Year2022
Volume13
Pages826654-826654
Publication date2022-08-16
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrontiers in Psychiatry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1664-0640 • E-ISSN: 1664-0640
PublisherFrontiers Media (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3389/fpsyt.2022.826654
PMID36051554
OpenAlexW4291824951
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited83

In trying to make sense of the extensive phenomenological variation of first-personal reports on auditory verbal hallucinations, the concept of pseudohallucination is originally introduced to designate any hallucinatory-like phenomena not exhibiting some of the paradigmatic features of "genuine" hallucinations. After its introduction, Karl Jaspers locates the notion of pseudohallucinations into the auditory domain, appealing to a distinction between hallucinatory voices heard within the subjective inner space (pseudohallucination) and voices heard in the outer external space (real hallucinations) with differences in their sensory richness. Jaspers' characterization of the term has been the target of a number of phenomenological, conceptual and empirically-based criticisms. From this latter point of view, it has been claimed that the concept cannot capture distinct phenomena at the neurobiological level. Over the last years, the notion of pseudohallucination seems to be falling into disuse as no major diagnostic system seems to refer to it. In this paper, we propose that even if the concept of pseudohallucination is not helpful to differentiate distinct phenomena at the neurobiological level, the inner/outer distinction highlighted by Jaspers' characterization of the term still remains an open explanatory challenge for dominant theories about the neurocognitive origin of auditory verbal hallucinations. We call this, " the challenge from pseudohallucinations ". After exploring this issue in detail, we propose some phenomenological, conceptual, and empirical paths for future research that might help to build up a more contextualized and dynamic view of auditory verbal hallucinatory phenomena

Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Neurocognitive · Phenomenology (philosophy · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Neuroscience · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Philosophy · Psychology · Schizophrenia research and treatment

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