Am J Psychiatry 1994; 151:1229-1230
Copyright © 1994 by American Psychiatric Association
Semantic organization of hallucinated "voices" in schizophrenia
RE Hoffman, E Oates, RJ Hafner, HH Hustig and TH McGlashan
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.
The authors found that the different hallucinated "voices" of four
schizophrenic subjects reported over 1-3 weeks expressed semantic content
that was at least as persistent as clauses sampled from single 5-7-minute
conversational discourses of four comparison speakers. The high degree of
semantic recurrence of voices from one day to the next may contribute to
the mistaken belief that these experiences derive from a particular nonself
agent or speaker.
