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Voices carry The message and mystery of auditory hallucinations, from Moses to modern times
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BOOK REVIEW
Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and
Meaning of Auditory Hallucination
By Daniel B. Smith
Penguin, 254 pp., $24.95
Imagine that you are sitting on a bench in an MBTA station,
waiting for a train. Next to you is an older man, staring into the
distance with a glazed look in his eyes. Every few minutes his lips
move in silent speech. Then, his trance seems to break, and he turns
to you. "I hear voices in my head," he says, "that...
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Voices carry The message and mystery of auditory hallucinations, from Moses to modern times
The Boston Globe
; BOOK REVIEW Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination By Daniel B. Smith Penguin, 254 pp., $24.95 Imagine that you are sitting on a bench in an MBTA station, waiting for a train. Next to you is an older man, staring into the distance with a
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NSW: Schizophrenia sufferers may be hearing 'old' voices
AAP General News (Australia)
; 00-00-0000 NSW: Schizophrenia sufferers may be hearing 'old' voices By Judy Skatssoon, National Medical Writer SYDNEY, Sept 3 AAP - When people with schizophrenia hear voices they may actually be experiencing disconnected fragments of auditory memory from various points in their lives. The
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Runny noses, life in space, voices in our heads and little people.
The Washington Post
; ... to know what the astronauts were thinking and feeling at different times. Both distract from the story. -- Marc Kaufman When news broke in 2004 that archaeologists had found the remains of tiny "hobbit-like" people on the Indonesian island of Flores, the ...
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Sound help: internal voices.('Virtual Illusions' audiotape simulates schizophrenia's 'hearing voices' for health care workers and family members of the afflicted)(Health Watch)(Brief Article)
U.S. News & World Report
; Family members, co-workers, and medical professionals can begin to understand what it's like for people with schizophrenia to hear voices by listening to a new audiotape. The tape, Virtual Hallucinations ($5, 800-414-5745), is an accurate rendition of a severe episode of auditory hallucinations,
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 "The Economist (US)")
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The sane voice of Auntie. (people who hear voices treated with radio broadcasts) (Science and Technology)
The Economist (US)
; The sane voice of Auntie IF YOU often hear voices that are not really there, try switching on the radio, preferably tuned to BBC's Radio 4. It could make the imaginary voices more bearable, even after the broadcast ones have been switched off. This unlikely advice comes from three London
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Hearsay: from the divinely inspired to the pathological, a history of auditory hallucination.(Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination )(Book review)
American Scholar
; MUSES, MADMEN, AND PROPHETS Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination By Daniel B. Smith Penguin | $24.95 Describing the composition of his epic poem Milton, William Blake wrote to one of his patrons: I have written this poem from immediate Dictation twelve or sometimes
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Getting the voices to STOP; Researchers look into treating auditory hallucinations with magnetic fields
New Haven Register
; We all sense voices in our heads. This internal dialogue is normally like talking to yourself. But some people hear a flow of insulting, derogatory and abusive commentary spoken by unidentifiable voices. These upsetting spectral sounds are called auditory hallucinations and they affect about 75
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Stopping the voices
New Haven Register
; We all sense voices in our heads. This internal dialogue is normally like talking to yourself. But some people hear a flow of insulting, derogatory and abusive commentary spoken by unidentifiable voices. These upsetting spectral sounds are called auditory hallucinations and they affect about 75
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Technique may reduce auditory hallucinations: improvement brought by transcranial magnetic stimulation appears short lived.(Adult Psychiatry)
Clinical Psychiatry News
; SACRAMENTO -- Transcranial magnetic stimulation has much promise for the treatment of auditory hallucinations, but the improvement that patients experience often is short lived and the techniques used need some improvement, Dr. Ralph E. Hoffman said at a meeting on psychotic disorders sponsored by
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Group CBT and psychosis
Mental Health Nursing
; Group treatment of auditory hallucinations Wykes T, Parr A, Landau S. British Journal of Psychiatry 1999; 175: 184-185. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in group settings for people experiencing auditory hallucinations can produce significant changes and is a more cost-effective alternative to
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