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Hearing Voices Network. Hearing Voices Networks, closely related to the Hearing Voices Movement, are peer -focused national organizations for people who hear voices (commonly referred to as auditory hallucinations) and supporting family members, activists and mental health practitioners. Members may or may not have a psychiatric diagnosis.
An auditory hallucination, or paracusia, [1] is a form of hallucination that involves perceiving sounds without auditory stimulus. While experiencing an auditory hallucination, the affected person hears a sound or sounds that did not come from the natural environment. A common form of auditory hallucination involves hearing one or more voices ...
Musical hallucinations. Musical hallucinations (also known as auditory hallucinations, auditory Charles Bonnet Syndrome, and Oliver Sacks' syndrome [1]) describes a neurological disorder in which the patient will hallucinate songs, tunes, instruments and melodies. These hallucinations are not correlated with psychotic illness. [2]
The Hearing Voices Movement (HVM) is the name used by organizations and individuals advocating the "hearing voices approach", [1] an alternative way of understanding the experience of those people who "hear voices". In the medical professional literature, ‘voices’ are most often referred to as auditory verbal hallucinations.
Auditory hallucinations have two essential components: audibility and alienation. [7] This differentiates it from thought insertion. While auditory hallucination does share the experience of alienation (patients cannot recognize that the thoughts they are having are self-generated), thought insertion lacks the audibility component (experiencing the thoughts as occurring outside of their mind ...
Frequency. ~10% of people [2] Exploding head syndrome (EHS) is an abnormal sensory perception during sleep in which a person experiences auditory hallucinations that are loud and of short duration when falling asleep or waking up. [2][4] The noise may be frightening, typically occurs only occasionally, and is not a serious health concern. [2 ...
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Auditory hallucinations discussing the patient's thoughts as or before they occur. Auditory hallucinations taking the form of a commentary on the subject's thoughts or behavior. The experience of intrusion of unusual ideas or thoughts into the subject's mind as a result of the action of some external agency ( thought insertion ).