Avatar therapy for persecutory auditory hallucinations: What is it and how does it work?

Psychosis

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 166-176

  Leff, Julian ^a   Williams, Geoffrey ^a   Huckvale, Mark ^a   Arbuthnot, Maurice ^b   Leff, Alex P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

avatar therapy; child abuse; client centred therapy; defence mechanisms; hearing voices; treatment outcome research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902674253     PISSN: 17522439     EISSN: 17522447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17522439.2013.773457     Document Type: Article

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