All Outputs (12)

Metaphorical thinking and delusions in psychosis (2021)
Book Chapter

This paper explores how metaphorical thinking might contribute to an aetiology of florid delusions in psychosis.We argue that this approach helps to account for the pathfrom experience to the delusional assertion, which, though relatively straightfor... Read More about Metaphorical thinking and delusions in psychosis.

Voice-hearing and personification: Characterizing social qualities of auditory verbal hallucinations in early psychosis (2020)
Journal Article

Recent therapeutic approaches to auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) exploit the person-like qualities of voices. Little is known, however, about how, why, and when AVH become personified. We aimed to investigate personification in individuals' earl... Read More about Voice-hearing and personification: Characterizing social qualities of auditory verbal hallucinations in early psychosis.

People with delusions understand metaphor differently - here’s how it could help explain schizophrenia (2020)
Newspaper / Magazine

Why do we talk to ourselves? (2020)
Journal Article

Human beings talk to themselves; sometimes out-loud, other times in inner speech. In this paper, I present a resolution to the following dilemma that arises from self-talk. If self-talk exists then either, (i) we know what we are going to say and sel... Read More about Why do we talk to ourselves?.

Language in schizophrenia and aphasia: The relationship with non-verbal cognition and thought disorder (2019)
Journal Article

Objective: To determine the relationship between language abnormalities and broader cognitive impairment and thought disorder by examining language and cognition in schizophrenia and aphasia (a primary language disorder). Methods: Cognitive and lingu... Read More about Language in schizophrenia and aphasia: The relationship with non-verbal cognition and thought disorder.

Non-literal understanding and psychosis: Metaphor comprehension in individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (2019)
Journal Article

Previous studies suggest that understanding of non-literal expressions, and in particular metaphors, can be impaired in people with schizophrenia; although it is not clear why. We explored metaphor comprehension capacity using a novel picture selecti... Read More about Non-literal understanding and psychosis: Metaphor comprehension in individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.

The ice in voices: Understanding negative content in auditory-verbal hallucinations (2018)
Journal Article

Negative voice-content is the best sole predictor of whether the hearer of an auditory-verbal hallucination will experience distress/impairment necessitating contact with mental health services. Yet, what causes negative voice-content and how interve... Read More about The ice in voices: Understanding negative content in auditory-verbal hallucinations.

The language profile of formal thought disorder (2018)
Journal Article

Formal thought disorder (FTD) is clinically manifested as disorganized speech, but there have been only few investigations of its linguistic properties. We examined how disturbance of thought may relate to the referential function of language as expr... Read More about The language profile of formal thought disorder.

Factive and counterfactive interpretation of embedded clauses in aphasia and its relationship with lexical, syntactic and general cognitive capacities (2018)
Journal Article

In factive clausal embedding ([He knows [that it is warm outside]]), the embedded clause is presupposed to be true. In non-factive embedding ([He thinks [that it is warm outside]]) there is no presupposition, and in counterfactive embedding ([It only... Read More about Factive and counterfactive interpretation of embedded clauses in aphasia and its relationship with lexical, syntactic and general cognitive capacities.

Relating therapy for distressing voices: Who, or what, is changing? (2018)
Journal Article

Background: The experience of hearing distressing voices has recently been conceptualised within relational terms, whereby the voice is perceived as a person-like stimulus with whom the hearer has a difficult relationship. Therapeutic approaches are... Read More about Relating therapy for distressing voices: Who, or what, is changing?.

Relating to the speaker behind the voice: What is changing? (2018)
Journal Article

We introduce therapeutic techniques that encourage voice hearers to view their voices as coming from intentional agents whose behavior may be dependent on how the voice hearer relates to and interacts with them. We suggest that this approach is effec... Read More about Relating to the speaker behind the voice: What is changing?.

The speaker behind the voice: Therapeutic practice from the perspective of pragmatic theory (2015)
Journal Article

Many attempts at understanding auditory verbal hallucinations have tried to explain why there is an auditory experience in the absence of an appropriate stimulus. We suggest that many instance of voice-hearing should be approached differently. More s... Read More about The speaker behind the voice: Therapeutic practice from the perspective of pragmatic theory.