Can't You Hear Them? : The Science and Significance of Hearing Voices.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (378 pages)
Intro -- Can't You Hear Them?: the science and significance of hearing voices by Simon McCarthy-Jones -- Introduction -- 1. Desperately Seeking Silence -- 2. Context, Not Cortex -- 3. Religion Weaponizes Medicine -- 4. Manufacturing Meaning -- 5. There's Still Steel in Sheffield -- 6. A Candle in the Dark -- 7. The Psychiatric Reformation -- 8. Variety with Commonality -- 9. Doublespeak -- 10. Only God Knows -- 11. Follow the Trauma -- 12. Certified Organic -- 13. Beyond Diagnosis -- 14. Two Point Five Per Cent -- 15. Where to Start with Causes -- 16. Breast Pumps from Hell -- 17. Hypervigilance Hallucinations -- 18. What Have They Done to You, Poor Child? -- 19. Can Child Abuse Cause Voice-Hearing? -- 20. Voice-Hearing as Memories of Trauma -- 21. What Encourages Voice-Hearing After Trauma? -- 22. The Galaxy in Your Head -- 23. Grey Matter Changes in the Voice-Hearing Brain -- 24. Where Wilder's Things Roam -- 25. What is the Brain Doing When Someone is Hearing Voices? -- 26. White Matter Changes in the Voice-Hearing Brain -- 27. Who May I Say is Calling? -- 28. Take into the Air My Quiet Breath -- 29. Meet You in Malkovich -- 30. Right is Might -- 31. Speak, Memory -- 32. TPJ -- 33. Vigorously Resting -- 34. A Tranquillizer by Any Other Name? -- 35. Antipsychotics: Heart-Warming and Heart-Breaking -- 36. Enter Synapse -- 37. The Truths They Are A'changing -- 38. The Untamed Prediction -- 39. Neurodevelopmental Theories -- 40. Are there Genes for Hallucinations? -- 41. When the World Speaks, the Genome Listens -- 42. Turning to Recovery -- 43. The Long Talk to Freedom -- 44. The Voice-Hearer's Stone -- 45. The Master's Tools -- 46. I Came a Stranger, I Depart a Stranger -- 47. What Causes the Causes? -- Conclusions -- Endnotes -- Index -- Blank Page.
What's wrong with you?' People who hear voices will often hear this alienating question, and are treated ineffectively with anti-psychotic drugs. Recounting the stories of voice-hearers, this book suggests that we should instead ask 'What happened to you?, and offers an alternative approach to auditory hallucinations.