BackgroundThe psychosis-proneness–persistence–impairment model of psychotic disorder
incorporates notions of both phenomenological and temporal continuity (persistence) of …

A systematic review of all reported incidence and prevalence studies of population rates of
subclinical psychotic experiences reveals a median prevalence rate of around 5% and a …

A large body of research indicates that weak expressions of positive psychotic symptoms
(“psychotic experiences”) can be measured in the general population, and likely represent …

Abstract The international Hearing Voices Movement (HVM) is a prominent mental health
service-user/survivor movement that promotes the needs and perspectives of experts by …

How do we understand mental health problems in their social context? A former BMA
Medical Book of the Year award winner, this book provides a sociological analysis of major …

A number of studies have explored hallucinations as complex experiences involving
interactions between psychological, biological, and environmental factors and mechanisms …

Recent research shows that psychotic symptoms, or psychotic-like experiences (PLEs), are
reported not only by psychosis patients but also by healthy members of the general …

The personality dimension of schizotypy is well established, and schizotypal traits can be
taken to represent a proneness toward developing psychosis. Yet, there are competing …

Objective: General population longitudinal cohort studies have demonstrated the prognostic
validity of self‐reported psychotic experiences, but data on reliability and cross‐validation …

Voice hearing (VH) is often regarded as pathognomic for schizophrenia. The purpose of this
article is to review and integrate historical, clinical, epidemiological, and phenomenological …