The Varieties of Verbal Hallucinations

Dr Sam Wilkinson (Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Durham University) delivered a talk entitled "The Varieties of Verbal Hallucinations" as part of the Arts and Science Festival 2015.

[UtraVioletDreams]

I have them. I'm NOT schizophrenic nor did I ever had a psychoses. I'm mentally stable and I feel good about myself, I have friends and never feel alone. I can also talk to them, just as I can talk to any of you. I have had whole discussions with them. About lots of different topics. My voices are consistent in terms of how they sound and who they are. I hear 2, they never try to make me do anything negative or command me in any sort of way. It's almost like having two friends in my head... I've had this for years and still think it's weird and odd.

[pwoodsable]

this is very helpful and i will need to watch it again because I experience hearing the voices all the time always commenting on everything that i do can't escape the voices .

[headsandshoulders]

Wow i relate so much to these inner speech hallucinations

[Welsh_Aussie]

Isn’t that just your inner dialogue if it’s soundless which 90% of people have?

[Eyerealitymaterial]

I have this problem from 25 days..how can I talk to this doctor??

[riot.]

This is disgusting - that everything abnormal is classified as sickness in academic community. Everything.