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By Jill Stefko
Even today, some mental health professionals still misdiagnose and label people as psychotic when they experience clairaudience - psychic hearing!
The ICD-10, International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision and the DSM-IV TR, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Revised Fourth Edition are the handbooks mental health professionals use for making diagnoses. Hallucinations are defined as hearing, seeing, smelling, feeling by sense or touch or tasting something without a stimulus present. Transpersonal Psychology is the only school that recognizes extraordinary human psychic experiences.
Auditory Hallucinations (AH)
Sensory and sleep deprivation, some medications and drugs can cause hallucinations. These are one of the criteria for schizophrenia, a psychosis, and severe psychiatric disorder. Schizophrenic symptoms also include delusions, irrational thinking and abnormal behavior.
There are four types of AHs:
Second person – The voices call the people “you” and tell them to do something. “You’re going to feel sick.” “You must kick your significant other.” In depressive psychosis the words are derogatory. “You are disgusting.”
Third person - The voices talk to people about themselves or describe what they’re doing. “She’s no good.” “He’s eating.” Some people with mood disorders, such as bipolar, hear these voices.
Echo de la pensée: People hear voices that echo their thoughts after they had them.
Gedankenlautwerden: The voices anticipate what people are going to think or are thinking.
Treatment for AH includes psychotherapy, psychotropic medications, distracting activities, such as listening to music, physical activity, cognitive behavior, like ignoring them...... continues
Copyright©Jill Stefko
Originally posted on suite101 on 16/07/2012 and reproduced here courtesy of Jill Stefko
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