Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy
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Behav Cogn Psychother · May 2018
Associations between Trauma, Dissociation, Adult Attachment and Proneness to Hallucinations.
Childhood adversity, dissociation and adult attachment have all been implicated in the development of hallucinations or 'voice-hearing'. Testing psychological models in relation to subclinical phenomena, such as proneness to hallucinations in non-clinical samples, provides a convenient methodology to develop understanding of the processes and mechanisms underlying clinical symptoms. ⋯ This study provides further evidence to support the idea that attachment and dissociation are important psychological mechanisms involved in voice-hearing proneness. Further testing is required with a clinical population.