Auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder: Common phenomenology, common cause, common interventions?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue SpecialIssue1, 2016, Pages

  McCarthy Jones, Simon ^a   Longden, Eleanor ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abuse; Dissociation; Hallucinations; Hearing voices; Memory; Psychosis; PTSD; Traumatology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995569145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01071     Document Type: Article

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