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    The association between traumatic experience, paranoia and hallucinations: a test of the predictions of psychological models

    Gracie, A. and Freeman, D. and Green, Simon and Garety, P.A. and Kuipers, E. and Hardy, A. and Ray, K. and Dunn, G. and Bebbington, P. and Fowler, D. (2007) The association between traumatic experience, paranoia and hallucinations: a test of the predictions of psychological models. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 116 (4), pp. 280-289. ISSN 0001-690X.

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    Abstract

    Objective:  The current study investigated the relationship between trauma and predisposition to hallucinations and to paranoia in a non-clinical sample. Method:  A total of 228 students completed online measures of trauma, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), schematic beliefs, perceptual anomalies, and predisposition to hallucinations and paranoia. Results:  Associations were found between negative schematic beliefs, PTSD and predisposition to both paranoia and hallucinations. PTSD reexperiencing-symptoms were most strongly associated with a predisposition to hallucinations. Negative beliefs about self and others were most strongly associated with a predisposition to paranoia. Conclusion:  The results provide support for the prediction that there may be two routes between trauma and predisposition to psychosis. Clear support was found for a link between trauma and psychosis mediated by negative beliefs about self and others. There may also be a direct association between re-experiencing symptoms and hallucinations.

    Metadata

    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): hallucination, paranoia, psychosis, trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 16 Feb 2016 10:21
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:21
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/14336

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