Psychopathology
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This study measures the impact of beliefs about auditory hallucinations on social functioning. ⋯ The results indicate that a positive relationship with voices may affect social functioning. However, the size of the sample is small and patients with benevolent voices are overrepresented. Nonetheless, these results have implications for the use of cognitive therapy for psychotic symptoms.
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Dissociation is often conceptualised as an altered state of consciousness, a trance-like state in which normal barriers between conscious and unconscious memories, desires and beliefs break down and other amnestic barriers emerge. This review explores whether it is likely that there is a neurophysiology of pathological dissociative processes that will elucidate management. ⋯ Psychiatric and neurophysiological research and theory development are better directed towards individual components that contribute to dissociative experience.