Auditory hallucinations, something not as strange as it seems

Hearing hallucinations have been little studied, since they were considered only as A symptom of psychosis.

Therefore, there was no independent study of this phenomenon. However, in the 1980s, psychologists and psychiatrists began to question this form of classification and understood that it is a psychological phenomenon.

Content

• What are exactly auditory hallucinations
• Why are auditory hallucinations?
• A challenge for research
  • Bibliography

What are exactly auditory hallucinations

Sometimes someone comments that "listen.

However, We can all suffer from this type of hallucinations, given that This is subjective perceptions that occur in the absence of external stimuli.

For those who feel this type of hallucinations, their life could be stormy and experience great discomfort.

Well, The phenomenon can go from a simple sound to a whole conversation that is heard as if they were normal voices, with a marked accent, tone and volume that is believed to come from the environment, and not from the interiority of the subject.

Although, indeed, auditory hallucinations are considered to be a symptom of diseases such as Parkinson's, schizophrenia or Alzheimer's, the truth is that Much of the healthy population can once experience it in their life.

They can be presented when the person falls asleep or when he wakes up and Stress plays a fundamental role, just like fatigue, which are considered precipitating, whether there is a underlying mental illness or not.

Why are auditory hallucinations?

Some hypotheses pose that auditory hallucinations occur as a result of a Verbal self-monitoring failure, So the subjective experience of talking with oneself would appear as something unintempted and it seems that others were those who speak.

Another hypothesis argues that it is due to deficient memory processes. According to this approach, auditory hallucinations can be presented as intrusive thoughts that are interpreted as if it were another person who was talking.

Likewise, it has been stated that auditory hallucinations can be given when there is a Altered connection pattern in the front-time network, which is responsible for the processing of memory and language.

In any case, auditory hallucinations can be given in patients with diseases or without them.

In fact, the approach on the concept of hallucinations has been questioned lately, precisely because traditional definitions define it as a perceptual disorder, but the truth is that you can deal with private events of the subject, such as thoughts, speech subvocal, images, images, among others, which, erroneously, are attributed to other people.

A challenge for research

According to the author Font Mireia, in her study on auditory hallucinations, these are a symptom, or subjective experience described by patients, who belong to the scope of perception and are classified as false sensory perceptions that are not associated with real stimuli external and a delusional interpretation of said experience may exist.

However, the problem of auditory hallucinations has been a challenge for research, since it is not fully understood how the person can confuse their internal world with the external.

Because of this, different hypotheses have emerged, even those that explain it as a cognitive deficit or a cognitive bias. Likewise, there has been talk about cognitive dissonances such as those responsible for these hallucinations.

However, more research on this matter is needed. Until now, some of the factors attributed to "listen to voices" are beliefs about the content of voices, or metacognitive beliefs.

It should be noted that investigations have been carried out to address this matter, so Many believe that the beliefs that the person has about their voices and it is not about hallucinations in themselves. For this reason, cognitive behavioral interventions have been designed in which It is not about eliminating the voices, but about changing the meaning that these voices have for the person in order to lessen the emotional discomfort that causes you.

It has also been considered the relationship that the person has with the voices, in which, many times, the individual is in subordination to them, so it is estimated that it is due to the reflection of previous schemes of the subject's social environment. For this, other strategies have been developed for the subject to learn different modalities of relating to the environment.

Most of the interventions that are proposed are not the elimination of voices, but in acceptance and not confrontation.

Finally, it is also worth mentioning that therapies such as targeting, which seek to modify external attribution and make individuals with hallucinations have been able to attribute their thoughts to themselves and not to external people. But, the results of this therapy have been limited and have not shown to be superior to other types of interventions.

It is important to highlight that Hearing hallucinations cannot be confused with tinitus, which is something totally different, because the tinitus or tinnitus They are a picture in which the person listens like a buzz or other noise noises in one or both ears. In the case of tinitus, sounds are not external nor do they feel like that, although other people cannot listen to them, but it is a more common problem than what is mostly thought of elderly to the elderly.

In tinitus, the cause is due to an underlying condition as an ear injury, The auditory loss associated with age, or a disorder in the circulatory system. Tinitus can improve with the treatment of the cause that underlies.

In summary, Auditive hallucinations are perceptions that do not correspond to external real stimuli. But, the person feels it as real, therefore, he has also been classified as pseudo-perception, due to the absence of such external stimuli.

Well, hallucination is different from cases where there are distorted perceptions of external stimuli, which do exist outside the subject.

What are hallucinations and how many types are there?

Bibliography

• Cangas, a. J., Montes, j. M. G., Molds, p., & Lorenzo, J. J. EITHER. (2005). Evaluation and meaning of the cognitive processes involved in auditory hallucinations. EDUPSYKHÉ: Magazine of Psychology and Psychopedagogy, 4(2), 251-264.
• Font Planells, M. (2006). Auditive hallucinations in schizophrenia: study of brain metabolism by PET with F18-FDG during the first psychotic episode, after clinical remission and after auditory-linguistic stimulation. University of Barcelona.
• García Montes, J. M., & Pérez Álvarez, M. (2001). ACT as a treatment of psychotic symptoms. The case of auditory hallucinations. Behavior analysis and modification.
• González, J. C., Sanjuán, j., Cañete, c., Echanove, m. J., & Loyal, C. (2003). The evaluation of auditory hallucinations: the Psychats scale. ESP PSIQUIAT minutes, 31, 10-17.