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Voice-hearing and personification: Characterizing social qualities of auditory verbal hallucinations in early psychosis (2020)
Journal Article
Alderson-Day, B., Woods, A., Moseley, P., Common, S., Deamer, F., Dodgson, G., & Fernyhough, C. (2021). Voice-hearing and personification: Characterizing social qualities of auditory verbal hallucinations in early psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 47(1), 228-236. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaa095

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)
Other
Deamer, F. (2020). People with delusions understand metaphor differently - here’s how it could help explain schizophrenia. The Conversation

Why do we talk to ourselves? (2020)
Journal Article
Deamer, F. (2021). Why do we talk to ourselves?. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 12(2), 425-433. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-020-00487-5

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?.