Relating to the Speaker behind the Voice: What is changing?

Felicity Deamer, Mark Hayward

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Abstract

We introduce therapeutic techniques that encourage voice hearers to view their voices as coming from intentional agents whose behavior may be dependent on how the voice hearer relates to and interacts with them. We suggest that this approach is effective because the communicative aspect of voice hearing might fruitfully be seen as explanatorily primitive, meaning that the agentive aspect, the auditory properties, and the intended meaning (interpretation) are all necessary parts of the experience, which contribute to the impact the experience has on the voice hearer. We examine the experiences of a patient who received Relating Therapy, and explore the kinds of changes that can result from this therapeutic approach.

Original language	English
Article number	11
Journal	Frontiers in Psychology
Volume	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00011
Publication status	Published - 25 Jan 2018

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© 2018 Deamer and Hayward. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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Relating to the Speaker behind the Voice
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