Young people's narratives of hearing voices: Systemic influences and conceptual challenges.

Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
Sarah ParryFilippo Varese

Abstract

Despite the prevalence of voice hearing in childhood and adolescence, little qualitative research has been undertaken with young people directly to advance phenomenological and aetiological insights into their experiences and interpretations. Consequently, the researchers sought demographic, contextual, and qualitative data from 74 young people from eleven countries, aged 13-18 years (28% = male; 61% = female; 21% = Transgender and Gender Non-Binary [TGNB]), who self-identified as hearing voices. A Foucauldian-informed narrative analysis yielded four analytic chapters, offering novel perspectives into individual, relational, systemic, and cultural interpretative narratives surrounding multisensory and multi-self voice hearing. Overall, young people reported heterogenous experiences of voice hearing and associated sensory experiences, and most participants reported voice hearing beginning between ages 8 and 11. Further, the emotions felt by the child, as well as reactions displayed by people around the child in relation to the voices, influenced voice-related distress and the nature of the voices in a triadic relationship. A continuum of multisensory features of voice content, nature, and relational significance is tentatively p...Continue Reading

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