Person-ness of voices in lived experience accounts of psychosis: combining literary linguistics and clinical psychology
Medical Humanities December 4, 2020 E. Semino, Z. Demjén, Luke C. Collins 7 citations
A literary linguistic framework for analyzing fictional characters can illuminate how people who hear voices perceive those voices as social agents. The authors propose a Characterisation Model of Voices that captures varying degrees of person-ness voices may possess. Applying the model to two interview accounts from voice-hearers in a psychosis intervention reveals nuanced differences in how voices are experienced as character-like. This approach offers insights into the phenomenology of voice-hearing and may inform therapeutic interventions.