'Schizophrenic or occult harassed?': A narrative study of an autobiographical text about auditory and visual hallucinations

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 83-100

  Karlsson, Lis Bodil ^a  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hallucinations; Hearing voices; Narrative recovery; Schizophrenia; Social work; User perspective; Voice hearing.

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449086330     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: 17413117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325008100421     Document Type: Article

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