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Chapter 11 - Dealing with Visions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2018

By
Robert Dudley ,
Rea Cheetham ,
Samuel Sargeant  and
Daniel Collerton
Edited by
Douglas Turkington  and
Helen M. Spencer
Douglas Turkington
Affiliation:
Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University
Helen M. Spencer
Affiliation:
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust
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Back to Life, Back to Normality
CBT Informed Recovery for Families with Relatives with Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses
 , pp. 70 - 78
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Collerton, D., Perry, E. & McKeith, I. (2005) Why people see things that are not there: A novel perception and attention deficit model for recurrent complex visual hallucinations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 737–94.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Gauntlett-Gilbert, J. & Kuipers, E. (2005) Visual hallucinations in psychiatric conditions: Appraisals and their relationship to distress. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 44, 77–87.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

Further Reading

For more information about visions please consider the following.

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A website which provides examples of when people have seen faces in everyday objects: www.boredpanda.com/pareidolia-faces-everyday-objects/

Useful website information includes Michael Shermer's TED talk covering topics that show how powerful expectation can be and how easily tricked we can be by optical illusions, etc.: www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_on_believing_strange_things?language=en

Intervoice is an online community where people share experiences about hearing voices, but they often consider other experiences such as visions: www.intervoiceonline.org

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