The International Consortium on
Hallucination Research
presents the
2016
Chicago Satellite Meeting
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Table of Contents
Welcome to ICHR 2016!
About the Conference……………………..…….… 3
Travel Information……………………………..….. 4
Schedule of Events…………………………….….. 5
Clinical Workshop Information……………….…. 10
Presentations………………………………..….….11
Poster Abstracts…………………………………...21
Additional Information
Wi-fi.……………………………………...….. 22
News from NIH……………………………… 23
Nearby restaurants…………………………… 24
Acknowledgements………………..………....….. 27
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Welcome to Chicago!
The 2016 ICHR Satellite conference is a historic event, marking the first time that members of the International Consortium, a network of leading voices & hallucinations researchers, have convened in North America. We are delighted to be hosting this event in
Chicago at the University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Psychiatry. Historically, researchers and clinicians from the US have been minimally represented in the ICHR and
one goal of this Satellite meeting is to forge stronger links between North American researchers and clinicians, and those from Europe, UK, Australia, and Asia, as well as encourage and support interdisciplinary, translation domain-focused research and practice in the
US.
A true interdisciplinary gathering, the Chicago satellite meeting showcases the important
contributions of multiple stakeholders, disciplines, and methodologies and includes the
work of a diverse group of individuals consisting of those with personal experience of voices or psychosis, front-line clinicians, academics, and researchers spanning the basic and
translational sciences, clinical and community psychology and psychiatry, anthropology,
neurobiology, and the medical humanities.
The satellite organizing committee has endeavored to build in multiple opportunities for
professional development, including one full-day and two mini-clinical workshops, continuing education credits for social workers, and collaboration-oriented networking. Interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration is at the heart of the ICHR’s international
mission and we encourage attendees to meet, mingle, and dialogue.
We are happy to announce that the next ICHR meeting will be in the fall of 2017 in Lille,
France (near Paris). ICHR will be soliciting proposals for 2017 working groups, please
check ICHR https://hallucinationconsortium.org/ website for details.
Throughout the conference, if you have any questions please feel free to contact anyone
wearing an organizer tag. We are happy to help make your conference experience a productive one.
Sincerely,
ICHR 2016 Steering Committee
Sarah Keedy, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Cherise Rosen, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Chicago
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Nev Jones, Ph.D.
Felton Institute
Travel Information
Conference Location
The conference will be held on the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical
Campus.
The Monday evening poster and dinner session with be at the Faculty Alumni
Lounge, which is located at 1853 W. Polk, Chicago, IL 60612 in room 199A.
The meeting, as well as the Wednesday workshop, will be held at the Psychiatric
Institute at 1601 West Taylor Street. Auditorium, Chicago IL 60612.
Both locations are nearest to the Polk Pink line CTA stop or the Illinois Medical District Blue line CTA stop.
Parking
Near the conference location, there are various parking options. UIC has a few
parking garages that visitors can utilize. Parking rates are up to $13.00 per day depending on the day and how long a visitor stays. Additional information about
parking rates and maps of where the parking garages are can be found here:
https://parking.uic.edu/rates___fees/
Conference attendees can also park in metered spaces on the street. The meter
rate in the area is typically $0.25 per 10 minutes. There is generally not free parking within a short walking distance to the meeting space.
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Schedule of Events
The ICHR Chicago Satellite will feature two tracks:
(1) Neuro- & Translational Research
(2) Clinical Research & Praxis
Tracks are designated only for informational purposes. Conference attendees are free and encouraged to attend any sessions or events that interest them.
**Unless otherwise noted, all panels, workshops, and discussions will be held in the main auditorium of the Psychiatric Institute, 1601 West Taylor Street**
Sunday, Sept. 25
REGISTRATION
Psychiatric Institute at UIC, 1601 West Taylor Street, Chicago IL 60612
5:30pm
Registration Opens
6:00-7:30pm
Evening Keynote: Eleanor Longden (University of Manchester) and Charles Heriot-Maitland
(King's College London): Compassion for Voices
Monday, Sept. 26
DAY 1
Psychiatric Institute at UIC, 1601 West Taylor Street, Chicago IL 60612
8:00-8:45am
Registration and Morning Coffee
8:45-9:00am
Opening Comments: Flavie Waters (University of Western Australia)
9:00 -10:00 am
Keynote: Renaud Jardri MD PhD (University of Lille): Understanding Complex Hallucinations in
Children
10:00 -10:15 am: BREAK
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10:15-11:45 am
Panel: Working with Voices: Compassion & Dialogue (CR&P)
Charles Heriot-Maitland (King's College London), Mark Hayward (University of Sussex), Georgie Paulik (University of Western Australia) & Craig Steel (University of Reading)
Panel: Biology & Neuroimaging (NTR), Room 366
Rajiv Sharma (University of Illinois at Chicago), Todd Woodward (University of British Columbia), Charles Fernyhough (Durham University)
11:45 am-12:00 pm: BREAK
12:00 - 12:50 pm LUNCH
Special Lunchtime Workshop: Narrative Approaches to Voices, Karen Taylor (Working to Recovery, Ltd.)
12:50-1:00 pm; BREAK
1:00 - 2:15 pm
Panel: Voices, Experience & Culture (CR&P, NTR)
Tanya Luhrmann (Stanford University), Berta Britz (Montgomery County Hearing Voices Network & HVN-USA), Angela Woods (Durham University)
2:15 - 2:30: BREAK
2:30 - 4:00 pm
Panel: Beyond the Academic Clinic: Real World Intervention (CR&P)
Neil Thomas (Swinburne University), Nev Jones (Felton Institute), Sandy Steingard(Howard
Center; University of Vermont School of Medicine)
4:00 -4:15 pm: BREAK
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4:15 - 5:15 pm
Panel: Innovations in Measurement: Phenomenology & Outcomes (CR&P, NTR)
Sarah Keedy (University of Chicago), Liz Pienkos (University of Hartford), Clara Strauss
(University of Surrey)
EVENING POSTER SESSION
1531 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60617 at Pompei' Resturant
5:30-6:00pm
Presenters may hang posters
6:00-8:00pm
Poster session and dinner
Tuesday, Sept. 27
DAY 2
Psychiatric Institute at UIC, 1601 West Taylor Street, Chicago IL 60612
8:00-8:45am
Registration and Morning Coffee
8:45 -9:45 am
Day 2 Keynote: Paul Allen MD PhD: Building a Model of Voices in the Brain
9:45-10:00 am: BREAK
10:00-11:30 am
Panel : Hallucinations Across Time & Diagnoses (CR&P, NTR)
Marius Romme & Sandra Escher (Maastricht University) via SKYPE, Martin Harrow(University
of Illinois at Chicago), Debra Lampshire (Auckland District Health Board & The University of
Auckland), Christopher Holden (University of Illinois at Chicago)
11:30 - 11:45 am: BREAK
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11:45 - 1:00 pm Lunch Panel
Clinical & General Audience Panel: Transforming Systems, Transforming Practice: Towards the
Future
Facilitated discussion with leading national & international thinkers on innovative clinical,
peer-led and digital/virtual approaches to voices and psychosis. Including:
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Sandy Steingard (Howard Center)
 Neil Thomas (Swinburne University)
 Marie C. Hansen (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
 Vanessa Klodnick (Thresholds)
 Anna Ballas (Felton Institute)
Cherise Rosen (University of Illinois at Chicago)
1:00 - 1:10 pm: BREAK
1:10 - 2:40 pm
Panel: Phenomenology of Voices & Perception (CR&P, NTR)
Simon McCarthy-Jones (Trinity College Dublin), Cherise Rosen (University of Illinois at Chicago), Clara Humpston (Cardiff University), Sohee Park (Vanderbilt University)\
1:10-2:40 pm
Panel: Beyond Psychosis: Hallucinations in Parkinson's Disease (NTR), Room 366
Christopher Goetz (Rush University), Jennifer Goldman (Rush University), Glenn Stebbins (Rush
University)
2:40 - 3:00: BREAK
3:00 - 4:30 pm
Panel: Phenomenology, Cognition & Neuroimaging (NTR), Room 366
Flavie Waters (University of Western Australia), Ben Alderson-Day (Durham University), Guillermo Horga (Columbia University), Stephanie Louise (Swinburne University of Technology)
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3:00 - 5:30 pm
Clinical Mini-Workshop: Compassion for Voices (CR&P)
Charles Heriot-Maitland (King's College London) & Eleanor Longden (University of Manchester)
5:45 - 6:30 pm
Carers Gathering, Room 366
Terry Smith (National Louis University) invites all Carers to attend an informal gathering to
begin to develop a network of support and advocacy.
Sept. 28
CLINICAL WORKSHOP
Psychiatric Institute at UIC, 1601 West Taylor Street, Chicago IL 60612, Room 366
8:30-9:00 am
Registration and morning coffee
9:00 am-12:00 pm
Mindfulness Based Therapy
12:00-1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00-4:00 pm
Relating Therapy
THANK YOU FOR COMING!
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Presentations
National Speakers
Berta Britz, Practicing Presence: Moving Towards Healing & Wholeness.
In this talk I will share from my experience learning to change my relationship with dominance. Mine has been an odyssey from fear, shame, hopelessness, and “psychosis” to home
and liberation. After struggling to combat fierce voices for over forty years, I discovered a
path to relational growing in the World Hearing Voices Network Movement. By assertively
changing my relationship with my voices, I moved from feeling powerless and disconnected to
discovering and affirming their meaning and learned to accept acceptance. I have learned to
meet and engage with “other,” to befriend my whole self and open opportunities for building
a more compassionate, inclusive community. I believe that a similar process of “being-with”
to understand “other” is a process by which we can effect both individual and social change—
a way to change our relationships with dominant voices/powers within our cultures, to embrace diversity and take steps towards sustaining our relationships with each other and the
planet.
Christopher Goetz, Jennifer Goldman, and Glenn T. Stebbins, Hallucinations in
Parkinson’s Disease.
Hallucinations are a common non-motor feature of Parkinson’s disease associated with both
morbidity and mortality. They occur in approximately 60% of chronically treated Parkinson’s
disease patients, and, though predominantly visual, they can affect other sensory domains. Cortical thickness and volumetric differences can be detected between Parkinson’s
disease patient with vs. without chronic hallucinations, and these differences are independent
of cognitive function. Functional fMRI techniques demonstrate alternations in processing of
visual information in occipital and frontal networks. (Hallucinations in Parkinson's Disease
Panel).
Marty Harrow, Hallucination and Treatment Across Time: Do Antipsychotics
Eliminate Hallucinations in Schizophrenia?
Continuous use of antipsychotic medication over time is the standard of care for schizophrenia patients. However, despite many positive assumptions, little is known about the effectiveness of antipsychotics after the first 3 years of treatment. The current research involves a
multi-year assessment of hallucinations in 139 schizophrenia and other psychotic patients.
From the Chicago Followup Study 70 schizophrenia patients and 69 psychotic mood disordered patients were assessed 6 times over a 20-year period. Standardized research instruments were used to assess hallucinations, other psychotic and nonpsychotic symptoms, and
various areas of functioning, including work adjustment. We found 1. Shortly after leaving the
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hospital some schizophrenia patients avoided taking antipsychotic medications. This allowed
comparisons of a group of schizophrenia patients continuously prescribed antipsychotics with
patients not on antipsychotics over multiple years. 2. At the first 2-year followups there was
not a significant difference in hallucinatory activity between the schizophrenia patients prescribed antipsychotics and those not on antipsychotics.3. Thereafter at the next five followups
over the next 17-18 years the schizophrenia patients prescribed antipsychotics reported significantly more hallucinatory activity than the schizophrenia patients not on antipsychotics
(p<.003).4. Our data indicate that after the acute phase of hospitalization only a low percent
of initially psychotic mood disordered patients have hallucinatory activity. Our 20-year data
do not support the view that after treatment with antipsychotic medications a very low percent of schizophrenia patients have hallucinatory activity. Beliefs about the long-term benefits
of antipsychotic treatment for schizophrenia are often derived from earlier short-term assessments. More long-term evaluations of hallucinatory activity are needed in the field.
Christopher Holden, At the border of drugs and psychosis.
This talk will focus primarily on methamphetamine and psychosis. Methamphetamine, like
many commonly-abused drugs, can cause psychotic symptoms including hallucinations. But
unlike other drugs, it can cause prolonged symptoms that persist for over a month after the
last dose was taken. Holden will discuss hallucinatory symptoms and risk factors for the drug,
and its underlying neurobiology.
Guillermo Horga, Dopamine, Predictive Learning, and Hallucinations in Schizophrenia.
Dopamine dysfunction is a core component of the pathophysiology of psychotic symptoms in
schizophrenia, including auditory verbal hallucinations. However, the cognitive and computational mechanisms that lead to the generation of hallucinations have remained elusive despite decades of research. We will present recent functional neuroimaging data suggesting
that an abnormality in predictive learning in the auditory system is associated with neural
phenotypes thought to represent downstream determinants of hallucinations, and may thus
underlie the generation of this symptom. We will also present functional and molecular imaging data suggesting that a disruption in functional connectivity from the striatum to associative cortices (including some areas of the auditory cortex) is related to dopamine function and
psychosis. Finally, behavioral, pharmacological, and molecular imaging data suggest that striatal dopamine release is specifically linked to context-related modulations of subjective perception under uncertainty, a potential cognitive mechanism mediating the effects of dopamine dysregulation on the generation of auditory hallucinations. These recent findings generally agree with predictive learning models of hallucinations and may shed new light on the
neurobiological and computational mechanisms of auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia.
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Nev Jones, Transforming Real-World Early Intervention in Psychosis Services: “Deep” Research for Systems Change.
This presentation takes the pioneering work of Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess ("deep
ecology") as its point of departure, discussing both the limitations and consequences of conventional ('shallow') approaches to psychosis-focused intervention development, implementation and research. The presentation then turns to the early psychosis focused work of Felton Institute's Client Centered Outcomes Research division (CCOR), unpacking methods and
lessons learned from a large sample (n = 590) multi-stakeholder and mixed methods investigation of the impact and mechanisms of action of community-based and community-managed
early intervention in psychosis services ("PREP") spanning five diverse Northern California
counties. Findings underscore inevitable differences in the perspectives of different key stakeholder groups (clients, family members and front-line clinicians), gaps between real-world services and university-driven intervention research, and the potential for the diversification of
research decision makers and methods to effect transformative change.
Sarah Keedy, The Chicago Hallucination Assessment Tool (CHAT): Findings From
Over 100 Interviews.
The Chicago Hallucination Assessment Tool (CHAT) builds on the PSYRATS (Haddock et al.,
1999), a gold standard quantitative instrument used to quantify auditory hallucination severity. Findings will be presented from a sample of over 120 individuals with various psychiatric
diagnoses who were interviewed with the CHAT. Findings include frequency of hallucinations
in different sensory modalities, current and past/worst severity, dimensions of severity, treatment responsivity, and features such as familiarity, repetition, time of day, and more.
Tanya Luhrmann, From the Voice of God to the Voices of Psychosis: Hearing Voices Across Cultures.
This talk draw from hundreds and hundreds of interviews with people who do, and do not,
meet criteria for serious psychotic disorder and who have experiences of hearing voices.
Those who seek to have auditory and quasi-auditory experiences (charismatic Christians, people who create “tulpas”) mostly report a specific pattern of voice-hearing. For most of them,
specific modes of training will increase the likelihood of such experiences and shape their content, as will cultural invitation. Most of those with psychosis report a very different pattern,
although to be clear voice-hearing is quite diverse. For these subjects, voice-hearing also responds to cultural invitation and to training. There are others who seem to fit neither of these
patterns. This talk explores these findings and considers their implications—above all, that
these experiences respond to training more than we have imagined.
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Sohee Park, Schizophrenia in the Flesh.
Splitting of the self, anomalous bodily experiences, and loss of agency, were central to early
conceptualization of schizophrenia but self-disturbances are absent from the current psychiatric diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia and it has not been extensively investigated empirically. To further elucidate mechanisms underlying self disturbances and dissociative experiences, we developed a series of multisensory experiments and a picture-based inventory of body
disturbances. Schizophrenia spectrum was associated with enhanced imagery ability including
perspective taking that is related to a porous sense of the body boundary and weakened
self. These disturbances of self are associated with reduced social interactions and increased
social isolation. Furthermore, abnormal interoception might further exacerbate the dysconnection between bodily reprsentations and the subjective feeling of self. Taken together, these
results depict a complex and richly contoured internal landscape of schizophrenia and brings
us back to the core nature of schizophrenia as the disorder of self, and highlights the importance of integrating the methods of cognitive neuroscience with the subjective phenomenology of the psychosis experience. These results also underscore the fundamental importance of bringing the body back to the study of the split mind, and suggest the potential
for behavioral interventions that can reduce the discrepancy between the body and the self,
such as singing and dancing.
Cherise Rosen, The intrasubjectivity of self, voices and delusions.
This talk will bring together qualitative and quantitative analysis of the intrasubjectivity of self,
voices and forms of delusions in psychosis. Her recent findings suggest that there are two distinct cluster groups. Cluster One: Voices and Thought delusions (thought insertion, thought
withdrawal, and thought broadcasting) and Cluster Two: Voices and Thematic Delusions
(delusions of guilt, jealousy, and erotomania). Primary cluster predictor algorithms show that
Voices and Thought delusions were more predictive and discrete in identifying cluster subtypes. The psychotherapeutic implications of this study underscore the need for greater
attention to the nuances of experiences in cases where a common underlying alteration (such
as attenuated ego boundaries) drives both voices and delusions represents a more valid clinical target.
Rajiv P. Sharma, Epigenetics, Epigenomics beyond the Synapse.
This presentation will focus present on the role of epigenetic mechanisms in planning future
treatment strategies. Epigenetics provides the gene-environment interface, and consequently
can transcribe the effects of psycho-social, immune, metabolic, and pharmacological inputs
(including alcohol and drugs of abuse) on genome activity. The talk will focus on how this
mechanism could advance currently static treatment options.
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Sandy Steingard, Slow Psychiatry.
Drawing on her work as Medical Director of the Howard Center in Vermont, Dr. Steingard's
presentation will introduce the concept of ‘slow psychiatry’, which she describes as the integration of ‘need-adapted’ models of mental health care such as Open Dialogue with the use
of psychoactive agents in a “cautious and humble way”.
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International Speakers
Ben Alderson-Day, Searching for speech and language in voice-hearers without
diagnoses.
Despite voice-hearing occurring across a large range of contexts and population groups, most
research on voices is still only conducted with people who receive a schizophrenia diagnosis.
Relatively little is known about the cognitive and neural mechanisms that might relate to
voice-hearing in those who never receive a psychiatric diagnosis and do not seek mental
health support. In this paper I describe a recently completed fMRI study conducted by the
Hearing the Voice project (Durham University) investigating how voice-hearers without psychiatric diagnoses process and respond to unusual and ambiguous auditory signals. Our results shed light on recent “predictive processing” theories of hallucination but also have general implications for understanding the influence of prior knowledge and expectation on
speech perception.
Paul Allen, Building a Model of Voices in the Brain Using Real-time fMRI Neurofeedback.
The talk will include discussion about the cognitive and neural mechanism thought to be involved in verbal auditory hallucinations in people with schizophrenia and how a casual link
between brain regions and auditory hallucinations can be tested. Preliminary data from a realtime fMRI neurofeedback study will be presented and plans for future research discussed.
Sandra Escher and Marius Romme (via SKYPE), Three Reasons to be Prudent
with the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia.
1)The symptoms of schizophrenia, being hearing voices , delusion(s)) and socially isolating behavior, are interacting together in a way that is quite understandable, and there is no factual
reason to think they are the result of an illness entity like schizophrenia. 2) hearing voices is
apparent with patients as well as with non-patients, and both are activating the same brain
centers. 3) Patients are interested and often better helped with a personal diagnosis
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learning to know what problems their voices represent. Because voices have a recognizable
background in the person’s life story while there is no cause known for the illness of schizophrenia. So with their voices they have a better chance of being helped to cope and understand what is happening to them.
Charles Fernyhough, Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations.
Non-auditory modalities have tended to be neglected in psychosis research. At the same time,
a dominant model for interpreting the occurrence of auditory-verbal hallucinations (the inner
speech model) has been fruitfully revised in recent research. In this talk, I address some issues
around the modality-generality of cognitive and neural processes in hallucinations, including
the role of different reality-monitoring systems, top-down and bottom-up processes in relation to the psychological substrates of hallucinations, and the enigma of multimodal hallucinations.
Mark Hayward, Don’t React: Relate Assertively to Distressing Voices.
There has recently been a shift from conceptualizing a voice as a sensory stimulus that the
hearer holds beliefs about, to a voice as a person-like stimulus that the hearer has
a relationship with. These relationships with voices are usually distressing and are similar to
the difficult relationships that hearers can have with other people. Relating Therapy supports
hearers to learn about and practice ways of relating assertively within difficult relationships with both voices and other people. This paper will share the results from a pilot RCT of Relating Therapy, and consider implications for clinical practice and future research.
Charles Heriot-Maitland, The Courage of Compassionate Relating to Voices.
It is incredibly hard to develop a meaningful relationship / dialogue with distressing voices.
The instinct is often to avoid or fight. This talk will focus on how we can create the conditions
in our body and mind that will give us the best chance of relating to distressing voices. It will
outline the Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) approach, where we would firstly aim to establish a bodily experience of safeness through, e.g. practice of grounding, posture, and
soothing breathing, and then gradually develop the compassionate mentalities and qualities
that are required to courageously engage with this process.
Clara Humpton, The Spectra of Soundless Voices and Audible Thoughts.
Patients with psychotic disorders experience a range of reality distortions. These often include
auditory-verbal hallucinations (AVHs), and thought insertion (TI) to a lesser degree; however,
their mechanisms and relationships between each other remain largely elusive. This paper
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proposes an integrative model drawing from the phenomenology of both AVHs and TI and argues that they in fact can be seen as ‘spectra’ of experiences with varying degrees of agency
and ownership, with ‘silent and internal own thoughts’ on one extreme and ‘fully external and
clearly audible voices’ in the absence of a speaker on the other. A spectral model will add emphasis to the continuity of experience and help to better understand how one type of psychotic symptom may interact with another, and will put forward the argument that the experience of TI itself is not sufficient to classify as a delusion. The methodological assumptions for
this paper are that 1) Belief and perception are interconnected; 2) Experiences are not static
and can morph into one another; and 3) The phenomenology of schizophrenia and related
psychoses needs to be understood in the totality of the experience, rather than as isolated
and atomistic mental events. Another aim of this paper is to discuss some of the conceptual
issues surrounding AVHs and TI with first-person accounts and current philosophical and neuropsychological theories in mind, such as the phenomenological differences and similarities
between AVHs and TI and how one subjectively differentiates between perception and belief
(that is, if delusions are beliefs at all). This paper suggests that the mechanisms behind AVHs
and TI are more complex than what source-monitoring deficits alone can explain; indeed, to
understand such phenomena one must appreciate that their very ‘existence’ and ‘reality’ as
experienced by the individual have much deeper implications and meaning, both philosophically and clinically.
Renaud Jardri, Understanding Complex Hallucinations in Children.
Will present on the Multisensory Hallucination Scale for Children (MHASC), a highly innovative, graphical app-based tool for assessing complex early-onset hallucinations in young children. Translation of the MHASC into multiple languages has been funded through the ICHR.
Debra Lampshire, The M.O.D.E.R.N. Voice Hearer.
Debra Lampshire will be presenting the work she does in NZ working with people who experience distressing voices. Debra holds a unique position in NZ of working as a voice hearer in a
clinical setting. Debra has developed an approach to voice hearing based on her 30 year experience of debilitating voices, and finally getting them under control and no longer allowing
them to create her present nor determine her future.
Stephanie Louise, The Development, Acceptability and Feasibility of an Individual, Brief Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Voices.
Background: A small body of research has recently emerged which explores the usefulness of
mindfulness for psychosis. It has yielded encouraging findings; with a small meta-analysis of
mindfulness-based interventions (including acceptance and mindfulness) demonstrating moderate changes from pre- to post-treatment in uncontrolled and controlled studies. However,
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the mindfulness interventions identified were solely of group format. Research Aim: This
study aimed to develop a brief, individually administered, mindfulness-based intervention for
voices and to establish the feasibility and acceptability of this program. Methodology: A foursession, manualised program for voices, including formal mindfulness meditation practices
and discussions around mindful responding as an alternative to habitual reactions to voices
was developed. 14 participants (8 female; mean age = 42.79) with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (11) or schizoaffective disorder (3) and medication resistant voices completed this program. Findings: Low attrition rates (14%), high in session formal practice completion rates
(mean practices = 8), high home practice engagement levels (frequency and duration), and
encouraging qualitative feedback, all support the feasibility and acceptability of this intervention. Conclusions: This study extends the mindfulness and psychosis literature, and demonstrates successful engagement of individuals who experience hearing voices with an individually administered mindfulness-based intervention.
Simon McCarthy-Jones, CBT for voice-hearing: what is it good for?
Meta-analyses have suggested that CBT has a small-medium size effect on voice-hearing. In
this talk, we will consider what specific aspects of the phenomenology of voice-hearing we
would expect to be helped by CBT and what actually are.
George Paulik-White, Coping Strategy Enhancement Therapy for distressing
voices: a helpful way to start a therapeutic conversation?
Coping Strategy Enhancement (CSE) is a structured four-session psychological intervention
which aims to reduce voice-related distress through the exploration and adaptation of antecedents of and responses to voice activity. The Sussex (UK) and Perth (Western Australia)
Voices Clinic have been implementing this approach at the beginning of a pathway of sequential therapy. Data and lessons learnt will reflect upon issues of effectiveness and accessibility.
Liz Pienkos, Placing voices in the world: Introducing the Examination of Anomalous World Experience.
While interviews that primarily focus on the experience of hearing voices, such as the Maastricht Interview, clearly demonstrate value for service-users, clinicians, and researchers, auditory verbal hallucinations frequently co-occur with other transformations of experience. The
Examination of Anomalous World Experience (EAWE) is a new, semi-structured interview that
has been developed to elicit descriptions of various changes of the lived world, including the
experience of space and objects, time and events, other persons, language, general atmosphere, and existential orientation. This presentation will introduce the EAWE and illustrate
how it may be used as an adjunct to hearing voices interviews, to contextualize the experience of auditory verbal hallucinations within an overall transformation of the lived world.
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Craig Steel, Relationship between Trauma and Hearing Voices.
Psychological approaches to hearing voices have evolved over recent years. Whilst cognitive
behaviour therapy (CBT) for voices has produced some significant results through a focus on
peoples’ beliefs about their voice hearing experiences. However, making sense of the content
of voices remains a minor part of most protocols. The Maastricht approach was developed by
Marius Romme and Sandra Escher when working with voice hearers over twenty years ago,
and is primarily focused on making sense of voices in relation to peoples’ life events. Although
well established in some sectors, it has not been evaluated within a clinical trial. I will present
a case series (N=15) as a first step in evaluating this approach , in collaboration with Dirk Corstens, Joachim Schnackenberg and Eleanor Longden. I will also discuss issues associated with
putting this approach into practice in the UK health service.
Clara Strauss, Measuring Valued Outcomes: Reporting on work in progress with
the Voice Impact Scale.
What is the primary purpose of psychological therapy for people distressed by hearing voices?
What are the most important outcomes to achieve? This presentation aims to provide some
answers to these questions. Most research evaluating the effectiveness of psychological therapies for people distressed by hearing voices foreground changes in voice characteristics
(such as changes in loudness, frequency, duration, location) as the primary outcome. Is this
really the most important, relevant outcome to measure? The Voice Impact Scale has been
developed through the ICHR using a Delphi approach to reach consensus on the most important outcomes to measure, consulting with an expert panel that included people with lived
experience of hearing voices and clinicians and researchers. This presentation will report on
findings from this process – highlighting the most important outcomes to measure – and will
present on progress to date with developing a new self-report measure of these outcomes.
We hope that this work will lead to a shift in focus when evaluating psychological therapies
for people distressed by hearing voices by providing a valid and reliable measure of the most
important outcomes.
Karen Taylor, Narrative approaches to hearing voices.
Karen will introduce a novel technique in the use of Narratives to better help understand the
experience and develop strategies to reduce distress and help the individual gain better control of their experience and move forward in working on their life goals. This course has been
developed to prepare organizations, families and voice hearers to deliver or practice recovery
ways of working with people hearing voices and other extreme experiences. It is based on the
experiences of Ron Coleman and Karen Taylor in their work in recovery houses in Scotland
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Australia and Italy. Session 1. Preparing for Recovery – What is recovery? The importance of
Choice, Ownership, People and Self in starting the Journey. Session 2. You are not the Problem
—Exploring why people often feel that somehow they are the problem and that they cannot
recover. Session 3. The Illness Trap -Focus on the barriers that can often get in the way of a
persons’ recovery and exploring ways they can be overcome. Session 4. The Importance of
Story - The importance of our stories- both that of the person with the problem and the family. Helping a person move from their dominant story to an alternative story that may help
them explore their problem in a very different way. Session 5 Sculpting Voices and/or Visions How we can sculpt aspects of the person’s experience voices, visions, etc to help them gain a
greater understanding of their experience and how we might use this technique in conjunction with voice dialogue. Session 6 Finding Resolution
Neil Thomas, Promoting self-management of voices and psychosis: Beyond the
bounds of expert therapy.
In Melbourne, Australia, we have been conducting a range of studies on the potential roles of
interventions that promote self-management of hearing voices and psychotic experiences. We
have been interested in two key evolutions in the way psychosocial interventions can be delivered: the growth of peer-led interventions, and the widespread accessibility of digital technology. Peer-delivered recovery courses, one-to-one intentional peer support, and hearing voices groups are key examples of peer interventions, and our research to date suggests that
these may have specific impacts on aspects of recovery not seen with traditional psychotherapies. Capitalising on the ability of the Internet to empower users, we have been conducting a
number of studies of digital technology in mental health delivery. Lived experience and technology come together in the SMART Research Program in which Internet-based peer video
content and peer-to-peer online interaction are used as means for promoting adaptation to
persisting psychosis, and provide recovery-oriented resources which can be integrated into
routine mental health work. Dr Thomas will discuss this research and future directions including the use of smartphones to promote in-the-moment coping with voices.
Flavie Waters, Visual hallucinations in first-episode psychosis and schizophrenia:
Are they clinically significant?
Visual hallucinations are commonly thought of as occurring mostly in eye disease and neurodegenerative conditions. Questions remain regarding the presence of visual hallucinations in
psychosis, and particularly their relationship with other hallucination modalities; demographic
and clinical profile; and prognostic significance. I will present cross-sectional and longitudinal
data from first-episode and chronic individuals with schizophrenia and other psychoses. The
results show that individuals with visual hallucinations have greater severity of
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Presentations, contd.
psychopathology, decreased global functions, and a less favourable prognosis, compared to
others without these symptoms, and even compared to individuals with auditory hallucinations occurring alone. I will argue that these data provide preliminary evidence for different
hallucination 'subtypes' in psychosis.
Angela Woods, Shame and Voice-Hearing.
Taking as its point of departure our study of the phenomenology of voice-hearing (Woods et
al 2015) conducted as part of the interdisciplinary Hearing the Voice Project (2012-2020), this
paper will consider how a focus on shame can open up new questions about the experience
of hearing voices. A ‘higher order’ emotion of social cognition, shame directs our attention to
aspects of voice-hearing which are under-studied and elusive: temporality; phenomenology
and in particular the ‘bodily’ dimensions of ‘mental’ phenomena; the sociality of voices; the
politicised identity of ‘the voice-hearer’; and the looping effects of stigma and self-stigma. In
exploring these questions, this paper will further ask what role, if any, a ‘hermeneutics of
emotion’ might play in future studies of human experience within the medical humanities.
Todd Woodward, Functional Brain Networks Underlying Hallucinations in Schizophrenia.
Coordinated co-activation of brain regions involved in auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs)
can be measured directly through correlation (bivariate) or component analysis (multivariate),
and can be based on brain activity for which the timing of the execution of cognitive events of
interest is known (task based) or unknown (resting state). In addition to the experience of hallucinations, the functional brain networks involved in a tendency to hallucinate, based on reports of hearing hallucination during the past week are also important to investigate, because
brain networks that bias towards functional hallucinations probably differ from those that are
activated during the actual hallucinatory experience. We outline brain networks involved in a
tendency to hallucinate using task based multivariate methods.
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Poster Abstracts
Associations between
visual hallucinations,
and visual hallucination-like experiences,
and reality
Monitoring
The present study aimed to replicate Brébion et al.’s (2008) finding that,
when performing a reality monitoring task, psychosis patients with visual hallucinations (VH) made more errors where they misremembered
stimuli that had been presented as words as having been presented as
pictures than did psychosis patients without VH. We attempted to replicate this finding in (a) a larger sample of psychosis patients with VH and
(b) in a sample of non-clinical participants who reported frequent VHlike experiences. The clinical sample consisted of 16 psychosis patients
who reported VH and 12 psychosis patients who reported auditory, but
Charlotte Aynsworth, Nazik not visual, hallucinations. The non-clinical sample consisted of 26 particNemat, Daniel Collerton, Da- ipants who reported high levels of VH-proneness and 21 participants
who reported low levels of VH-proneness. Both samples completed a
vid Smailes, and Rob Dudley reality monitoring task. Consistent with Brébion et al.’s findings, we
found that patients with VH made more errors where they misremembered stimuli that had been presented as words as having been presented as pictures than did psychosis patients without VH. A similar pattern
of results was observed in the non-clinical sample. These findings suggest that the cognitive mechanisms associated with clinical VH are also
associated with non-clinical VH-like experiences.
The Development,
Acceptability and
Feasibility of a FourSession MindfulnessBased Intervention
for Voices.
A small body of research has recently emerged which explores the usefulness of mindfulness for psychosis. It has yielded encouraging findings;
with a small meta-analysis of mindfulness-based interventions (including
acceptance and mindfulness) demonstrating moderate changes from
pre- to post-treatment in uncontrolled and controlled studies. However,
the mindfulness interventions identified were solely of group format.
Research Aim: This study aimed to develop a brief, individually administered, mindfulness-based intervention for voices and to establish the
feasibility and acceptability of this program. Methodology: A foursession, manualised program for voices, including formal mindfulness
Louise, Stephanie1,2*, Rossell,
Susan1,2,3 & Thomas, Neil1,2 1 meditation practices and discussions around mindful responding as an
Brain and Psychological Sciences alternative to habitual reactions to voices was developed. 14 participants (8 female; mean age = 42.79) with a diagnosis of schizophrenia
Research Centre, Faculty of
(11) or schizoaffective disorder (3) and medication resistant voices comHealth, Arts and Design, Swinpleted this program. Findings: Low attrition rates (14%), high in session
burne University of Technology,
formal practice completion rates (mean practices = 9), high home pracMelbourne, VIC, Australia 2
tice engagement levels (frequency and duration), and encouraging qualiMonash Alfred Psychiatry Retative feedback, all support the feasibility and acceptability of this intersearch Centre (MAPrc), Central
Clinical School, Monash University vention. Conclusions: This study extends the mindfulness and psychosis
literature, and demonstrates successful engagement of individuals who
and The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 3 Psychia- experience hearing voices with an individually administered mindfulness
-based intervention.
try, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Poster Abstracts, contd.
Cognitive correlates
of visual hallucination
-like experiences
David Smailes & Rob
Dudley
Several studies have reported that visual hallucinations (VH) in psychosis and dementia are related to problems or biases in reality monitoring, visual reality discrimination, and the detection of pareidolia.
We examined whether these same biases/problems are associated
with the frequency of non-clinical VH-like experiences. We showed
that the frequency of VH-like experiences in a sample of non-clincial
participants was significantly associated with how often participants
were able to detect a face pareidolia (r = .26). Similarly, the frequency
of VH-like experiences was significantly associated with the number of
reality discrimination errors (r = .39) participants made. However, the
number reality monitoring errors participants made was not significantly related to frequency of VH-like experiences (r = .12). In addition, we found that there was no association between performance on
these three tasks (all r-values < .06), suggesting that they tap different
processes. In sum, these studies suggest that, at least some, of the
processes involved in clinical VH are also involved in non-clinical VHlike experiences.
Hallucinations are common experiences of individuals with severe mental illness, yet the unique challenges they pose to employment and other recovery outcomes are not well understood. Many projects examine
relationships between experiencing positive symptoms and community
outcomes, including employment and independent living. Studies have
identified the ways in which cognitive interventions enhance supported
employment outcomes, particularly rates of competitive employment
(McGurk et al., 2015). This poster explores several factors related to
Emily Giangrande, MA, LCSW, hallucinations among clients enrolled in supported employment programs. The target population consists of 107 individuals living with seKim Mueser, PhD, & Susan
vere mental illness; the majority are living with diagnoses of schizoMcGurk, PhD
phrenia spectrum disorders (46%), bipolar disorder (23%), or major depression (17%). Data will be presented regarding the prevalence and
severity of hallucinations, relationships between these symptoms and
client characteristics, and the impact of hallucinations on other recovery outcomes, including self-esteem and quality of life. Significant univariate relationships were identified between demographic characteristics (i.e., being male), education (i.e., high school or less) and diagnosis
with experience of hallucinations. Multivariate statistical evaluation using logistic regression reveals a significant impact for psychiatric diagnosis (p< .001) and self-esteem (p< .05) on experience of hallucinations in
the target sample of adult participants who are seeking work.
The Impact of
Hallucinations on
Employment among
People with Severe
Mental Illness
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Poster Abstracts, contd.
Hallucinations & the
Resting-State Brain: A
Review of Findings in
the FBIRN Dataset
Hare, Stephanie M., Ford,
J.M., Law, A., Ahmadi, A.,
Damaraju, E., Belger, A.,
Bustillo, J., Lee, H.J.,
Mathalon, D.H., Mueller,
B.A., Preda, A., van Erp,
Introduction to the
Chicago Hallucination
Assessment Tool
Are sensory modality-specific (e.g. auditory vs. visual) experiences of
hallucinations in schizophrenia (Sz) associated with specific brain abnormalities? We review three resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsFMRI) analyses of data from the Function Biomedical
Informatics Research Network (FBIRN): (1) a hypothesis-driven seedbased functional connectivity analysis (Ford et al. 2015) and from subsets of the Ford et al. sample, (2) a voxelwise analysis of mean amplitudes of low frequency fluctuations (ALFF) (Hare et al. 2016) and (3)
preliminary findings from an independent component analysis investigating functional connectivity between resting-state networks (Law et
al., in prep). All studies examined blood-oxygenation-level-dependent
(BOLD) signal variation across three groups of Sz with auditory (but
not visual) hallucinations (AH group), visual hallucinations (VH group),
and neither AH nor VH (NH group), and healthy controls. Regardless of
analysis methods, hippocampal abnormalities were reported in AH
and VH patients, consistent with prior reports. Psychological and neural models of AH and VH in the Sz population should reflect this critical
contribution of plasticity-dependent learning/memory system(s), aiming to refine our understanding of how exactly abnormal hippocampal
signaling (disrupted theta oscillations, for instance) might relate to the
general tendency to hallucinate, but also finer-grained phenomenological features such as reported distress.
STILL NEED
Sarah Keedy, Barrett Kern
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Poster Abstracts
MEG-assessed functional connectivity
during auditory verbal
hallucinations in
schizophrenia
Jon Houck, Ph.D., Julia
Stephen, Ph.D., Jeff Lewine, Ph.D., Robert J. Thoma, Ph.D.
The naturalistic longterm observation of
the auditory verbal
hallucinations in
patients with
schizophrenia
using clozapine
Chung IW, Jeong SH, Youn T,
Lee NY, Kim SH, Kim YS
Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are highly distressing to patients with schizophrenia and can result in clinically significant depression, impaired social and
occupational functioning, and increase risk of suicide. An auditory activation
model (AAM) suggests that AVH result from abnormal synchrony with auditory
cortex, leading patients to erroneously label their internal monologues as
speech from a third party. That is, abnormal theta/alpha band synchrony with
temporal auditory cortex stamps that internal monologue as coming from the
external environment. The goal of the present study was to test the AAM by
evaluating seed-based connectivity with auditory cortex in a sample of schizophrenia patients during AVH. Twenty adult schizophrenia patients (SP) with AVH
were recruited and scanned using a whole-cortex 306-channel MEG array
(NeuromagTM, Elekta AB). During the scan, SP were instructed to respond with
their right index finger to indicate that an AVH had begun, and with their left
index finger to indicate that the AVH had ended. After preprocessing and epoching, phase lag index (PLI) was computed relative to transverse temporal gyrus
(TTG) and superior temporal sulcus (STS) for AVH onset and offset in the theta
and alpha ranges. Individual PLI estimates were registered to the MNI 305 template brain using a spherical morphing procedure (Fischl et al., 1999) and compared across conditions using permutation cluster tests in MNE-python. In the
theta band, significant differences in TTG connectivity between AVH-on and AVH
-off were observed in both anterior temporal and posterior parietal cortex. Auditory cortex connectivity estimates differed significantly during periods of AVH vs.
periods of non-AVH. The heightened connectivity observed between TTG and
parietal cortex suggests that the experience of AVH is linked to abnormal synchrony that is related to SP perception that the voices they hear derive from an
external source.
Although growing concerns about the disparity of characteristics in priority between researchers and voice hearers, few studies have been reported with patients’ self-reports/perspectives, particularly in long-term
courses. This study was to explore the naturalistic longitudinal changes of
AVHs in patients with schizophrenia using clozapine. Methods: 124 patients with DSM-IV schizophrenia using clozapine and assessed with
HPSVQ were retrospectively selected. We analyzed HPSVQ by the linear
mixed effect model. Results: 38 patients were included for the longterm changes of HPSVQ up to three years, excluding 30 patients of no
AVHs and 56 patients assessed only once. The mean total score of HPSVQ
was reduced significantly at 6 months from the baseline (p = 0.0420),
afterwards no significant but dynamic changes until 3 years. In the linear
mixed effects model, total score of HPSVQ and the physical factor were
decreased 1.05 (p = 0.0098) and 0.70 (p = 0.0058) per year, respectively,
but emotional factor did not show significant changes. Conclusion:
HPSVQ showed dynamic changes among the patients with schizophrenia
using clozapine, differently in the physical and emotional factors. The subjective emotional aspect should be paid more attentions in the clinical
practices and researches of AVHs.
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Poster Abstracts
Paracingulate sulcus
morphology is associated with hallucinations
in the human brain
Jane R. Garrison, Charles
Fernyhough, Simon McCarthyJones, Mark Haggard, The
The phenomenology of
musical
hallucinations: similarities and
differences to musical
imagery and
earworms
Peter Moseley, Ben AldersonDay, Charles Fernyhough
Hallucinations are common in psychiatric disorders, and are also experienced by many individuals who are not mentally ill. Here, in 153 participants, we investigate brain structural markers that predict the occurrence of hallucinations by comparing patients with schizophrenia who
have experienced hallucinations against patients who have not,
matched on a number of demographic and clinical variables. Using both
newly validated visual classification techniques and automated, datadriven methods, hallucinations were associated with specific brain morphology differences in the paracingulate sulcus, a fold in the medial
prefrontal cortex, with a 1 cm reduction in sulcal length increasing the
likelihood of hallucinations by 19.9%, regardless of the sensory modality in which they were experienced. The findings suggest a specific morphological basis for a pervasive feature of typical and atypical human
experience.
Although the majority of research on auditory hallucinations focuses on
experiences of hearing a voice being spoken, according to phenomenological surveys of hallucinating individuals, a significant minority experience musical hallucinations (MH) (Nayani & David, 1996; McCarthyJones et al., 2012). However, little research has attempted to understand the phenomenology of MH, or compared them to common experiences of musical imagery or earworms. Here, we present data from an
online survey of individuals who report experiencing MH (N = 44), musical imagery (N = 68), earworms (N = 105) or a mixture of these (N = 40),
comparing duration, frequency, familiarity, auditory content, and
effects on mood and behaviour between groups. MH were not associated with the presence of a psychiatric or neurological disorder, indicating that MH are not necessarily associated with a need for care. MH
were also reported as less frequent, shorter in duration, and less familiar, than other forms of musical experience. Further, we found that
whilst musical imagery and earworms were usually reported as including lyrical content (in around 80% of reports), lyrics were significantly
less common in MH (less than 50%). These findings, along with other
comparisons between MH and musical imagery, will be presented, and
implications discussed.
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Poster Abstracts
The relationship
between self-reported
obsessive-compulsive
symptoms and
auditory verbal
hallucinations in
patients with
schizophrenia treated
with clozapine
In
Won Chung, Seong Hoon
Jeong, Hee-Yeon Jung, Tak
Youn, Nam Young Lee, Se
Hyun Kim, Yong Sik Kim
TBD
The higher prevalence of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in patients
with schizophrenia treated with clozapine about 14.7 ~ 28.4% seems to
be worth exploring the relationship between obsessions and hallucinations in these patients. Because these symptoms are dependent on the
subjective descriptions and/or behaviors of patients, self-report questionnaires may provide advantages compared to the standard evaluations of psychiatric symptoms. This study was to explore the relationship between obsessions and hallucinations assessed by self-report
questionnaires. Methods: The patients with schizophrenia treated with
clozapine and assessed by HPSVQ, OCI-R, and PANSS in a same day
were retrospectively selected. The correlations among these scales
were performed. Results: 78 patients were explored the relationship
between OCI-R and HPSVQ. The total score and emotional factor of
HPSVQ were both moderately correlated (0.3 <│r│<0.5) with the total
score, neutralizing, and obsession subscales of OCI-R. Obsession subscale of OCI-R had the moderate correlations with total score and subscales of HPSVQ except clarity and obey commands. Discussion: This
study showed that AVHs and its emotional factor were moderately correlated with obsessions in self-report, not in clinician-rated. Further
evaluation of the relationship of hallucinations and obsessions with self
-report measures should be integrated for the better understanding
patients with schizophrenia.
STILL NEED
Ijeoma
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Clinical Workshop
Choosing How to Respond to Voices:
An Experiential Workshop of Mindfulness-Based Therapy for
Distressing Voices and Relating Therapy
Clara Strauss and Mark Hayward
Voices Clinic, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust & University of Sussex, UK
September 28, 9am - 4pm
1601 West Taylor Street. Auditorium, Chicago IL 60612
Background
Distressing voices often leave people feeling overwhelmed and disempowered – feeling they
have little or no control in their own lives – that voices have all the power and control. Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) can be helpful, but it may only help to a small extent and not everyone benefits. In our work we have built on the early work of CBT – developing and evaluating novel ways of responding differently to distressing voices. We hope that this may help to
increase feelings of empowerment, personal control and personal choice – ultimately reducing the distress and personal impact that voices can have.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy (Morning Session)
Inspired by and working with Paul Chadwick (Institute of Psychiatry, London), a pioneer of
mindfulness-based therapies, we have evaluated a mindfulness-based intervention for 108
people distressed by hearing voices in a randomised controlled trial. We will tell you a little
about the promising outcomes from this study, but the workshop will focus on teaching the
therapy skills and giving opportunities to practice these skills and to reflect on our learning.
Relating Therapy (Afternoon Session)
Relating Therapy highlights the parallels between people’s relationship with voices and with
people in their social worlds. It uses extensive experiential role plays to change people’s relationship with voices by enhancing assertive responding skills – learning to respond assertively
to voices and people. There are encouraging findings from our recent pilot randomised controlled trial that we will present, with the remainder of the workshop giving the opportunity
to observe, practice and discuss the core Relating Therapy skills.
For questions or more information on the workshop, contact Marie Hansen.
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Additional Information
Wi-Fi Access & Social Media Policy
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Username: ichr_2
Password: off4moi6
This account is activated from 9/25/2016 to 9/28/2016.
Social Media Information
The Felton Institute, a non profit mental health agency and co-sponsor of
the ICHR satellite, proposes hiring a local videographer to capture footage of the conference and conduct "man on the street" mini-interviews
with conference goers. They will ask you for your verbal consent prior to
asking you general questions about your thoughts on the conference and
such. You can choose to be interviewed or not and decide The questions
you wish to answer. You can also stop the interview at anytime you like.
They will be conducting the mini/interviews in between sessions and at
the poster session dinner. They will not be filming any panel presentations. There are no immediate plans to use the footage but a general desire to capture the event for use in the future (for example a short edited
video that could be posted on YouTube capturing the general flavor of
the conference).
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Additional Information
News from NIMH
The NIMH has published a pair of program announcements to
support R21 and R01 funding for studies focused on psychosis using the RDoC approach. Proposals that use integrative methods to
investigate hallucinations, delusions, disorganized behavior or
thought disruption across the illness-health dimension or crossdiagnostically are encouraged. The announcements expire March
6, 2017. The program announcements can be viewed at the following links:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-16-136.html
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-16-135.html
Please feel free to contact Sarah Morris ([email protected]) if
you have any questions regarding these announcements.
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