In today's post Rachel Gunn reports from How the Light Gets in Festival 2015. How the Light Gets in is a philosophy and music festival which takes place annually at Hay-on-Wye. This May was the seventh festival with over 650 philosophy, comedy and music events over a 9 day period. On the 24th May I attended a workshop run by Richard Bentall (pictured above) about hallucinations – in particular AVHs (auditory verbal hallucinations) also known as ‘voice hearing’. In this workshop Bentall gave us a ‘whistle stop tour’ of the research and literature on ‘voice hearing’. He drew on his own research and the research of others on signal detection analysis (eg: Bentall & Slade, 1985 ; Badcock et. al.,2013 ), the research of Chris Frith and others (eg Frith, 1987 ; Ford & Mathalon, 2005 ) on the neuroscience behind the experience and on research from Marius Romme who has investigated aspects such as history, background and onset (including childhood trauma) to understand...
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