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“Distress is probably the wrong word”: exploring uncertainty and ambivalence in non-clinical voice-hearing and the psychosis continuum (2024)
Journal Article
Swyer, A., Woods, A., Ellison, A., & Alderson-Day, B. (online). “Distress is probably the wrong word”: exploring uncertainty and ambivalence in non-clinical voice-hearing and the psychosis continuum. Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches, https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2024.2407138

Non-clinical voice-hearers (NCVHs) have been the subject of a growing body of psychological research, a primary aim of which is the development of new therapeutic techniques to support those who struggle with voice-hearing. However, relatively little... Read More about “Distress is probably the wrong word”: exploring uncertainty and ambivalence in non-clinical voice-hearing and the psychosis continuum.

History at the heart of medicine (2024)
Journal Article
McGuire, C., & Woods, A. (2024). History at the heart of medicine. Wellcome Open Research, 9(249), https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.21229.1

With a focus on the challenges of today and tomorrow in the critical medical humanities the role of history is often overlooked. Yet history and medicine are closely intertwined. Right now, with the surfacing of knotty problems such as changing demog... Read More about History at the heart of medicine.

Literature in Collaboration: The Work of Literature in the Critical Medical Humanities (2024)
Book Chapter
Woods, A., & Rákóczi, J. (2024). Literature in Collaboration: The Work of Literature in the Critical Medical Humanities. In A. M. Elsner, & M. Pietrzak-Franger (Eds.), Literature and Medicine (357-374). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009300070.025

What might the medical humanities be capable of doing?’ asked Viney, Callard, and Woods in their 2015 call for a critical medical humanities. This chapter endeavours to answer that question by investigating how ‘the literary’ is mobilized in health-f... Read More about Literature in Collaboration: The Work of Literature in the Critical Medical Humanities.

The Long or the Post of It? Temporality, Suffering, and Uncertainty in Narratives Following COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article
Cheston, K., Cenedese, M., & Woods, A. (2023). The Long or the Post of It? Temporality, Suffering, and Uncertainty in Narratives Following COVID-19. Journal of Medical Humanities, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-023-09824-y

Long COVID affects millions of individuals worldwide but remains poorly understood and contested. This article turns to accounts of patients' experiences to ask: What might narrative be doing both to long COVID and for those who live with the conditi... Read More about The Long or the Post of It? Temporality, Suffering, and Uncertainty in Narratives Following COVID-19.

Spiritually significant hallucinations: a patient-centred approach to tackle epistemic injustice (2023)
Journal Article
Cullinan, R. J., Woods, A., Barber, J. M., & Cook, C. C. (online). Spiritually significant hallucinations: a patient-centred approach to tackle epistemic injustice. BJPsych Bulletin, 48(2), 133-138. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2023.17

This article uses three fictitious case vignettes to raise questions and educate on how clinicians can appropriately approach patients experiencing spiritually significant hallucinations. Religious hallucinations are common but are not pathognomonic... Read More about Spiritually significant hallucinations: a patient-centred approach to tackle epistemic injustice.

Voice-hearing across the continuum: a phenomenology of spiritual voices (2022)
Journal Article
Moseley, P., Powell, A., Woods, A., Fernyhough, C., & Alderson-Day, B. (2022). Voice-hearing across the continuum: a phenomenology of spiritual voices. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 48(5), 1066-1074. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbac054

Background and Hypothesis: Voice-hearing in clinical and nonclinical groups has previously been compared using standardized assessments of psychotic experiences. Findings from several studies suggest that nonclinical voice-hearing is distinguished by... Read More about Voice-hearing across the continuum: a phenomenology of spiritual voices.

Corpus linguistics and clinical psychology: Investigating personification in first-person accounts of voice-hearing (2022)
Journal Article
Collins, L., Brezina, V., Demjén, Z., Semino, E., & Woods, A. (2023). Corpus linguistics and clinical psychology: Investigating personification in first-person accounts of voice-hearing. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 28(1), 28-59. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.21019.col

Triangulating corpus linguistic approaches with other (linguistic and non-linguistic) approaches enhances “both the rigour of corpus linguistics and its incorporation into all kinds of research” ( McEnery & Hardie, 2012 : 227). Our study investigates... Read More about Corpus linguistics and clinical psychology: Investigating personification in first-person accounts of voice-hearing.

“Figuring out how to be normal”: Exploring how young people and parents make sense of voice‐hearing in the family context (2022)
Journal Article
Mayer, C., Dodgson, G., Woods, A., & Alderson‐Day, B. (2022). “Figuring out how to be normal”: Exploring how young people and parents make sense of voice‐hearing in the family context. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 95(2), 600-614. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12381

Objectives Making sense of voice-hearing—exploring the purpose, cause, and relationship with voices—is seen as therapeutically valuable for adults, but there is a paucity of research with adolescents. Family intervention is recommended for young peop... Read More about “Figuring out how to be normal”: Exploring how young people and parents make sense of voice‐hearing in the family context.

Hearing spiritually significant voices: A phenomenological survey and taxonomy (2020)
Journal Article
Cook, C. C., Powell, A., Alderson-Day, B., & Woods, A. (2022). Hearing spiritually significant voices: A phenomenological survey and taxonomy. Medical Humanities, 48(3), 273-284. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2020-012021

Whereas previous research in the medical humanities has tended to neglect theology and religious studies, these disciplines sometimes have a very important contribution to make. The hearing of spiritually significant voices provides a case in point.... Read More about Hearing spiritually significant voices: A phenomenological survey and taxonomy.

A linguistic approach to the psychosis continuum: (dis)similarities and (dis)continuities in how clinical and non-clinical voice-hearers talk about their voices (2020)
Journal Article
Collins, L. C., Semino, E., Demjén, Z., Hardie, A., Moseley, P., Woods, A., & Alderson-Day, B. (2020). A linguistic approach to the psychosis continuum: (dis)similarities and (dis)continuities in how clinical and non-clinical voice-hearers talk about their voices. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 25(6), 447-465. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546805.2020.1842727

Introduction: “Continuum” approaches to psychosis have generated reports of similarities and differences in voice-hearing in clinical and non-clinical populations at the cohort level, but not typically examined overlap or degrees of difference betwee... Read More about A linguistic approach to the psychosis continuum: (dis)similarities and (dis)continuities in how clinical and non-clinical voice-hearers talk about their voices.

Voice-Hearing and Personification: Characterizing Social Qualities of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Early Psychosis (2020)
Journal Article
Alderson-Day, B., Woods, A., Moseley, P., Dodgson, G., Deamer, F., Common, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2021). Voice-Hearing and Personification: Characterizing Social Qualities of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Early Psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 47(1), 228-236. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaa095

Recent therapeutic approaches to auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) exploit the person-like qualities of voices. Little is known, however, about how, why, and when AVH become personified. We aimed to investigate personification in individuals’ earl... Read More about Voice-Hearing and Personification: Characterizing Social Qualities of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Early Psychosis.

‘I’ve learned I need to treat my characters like people’: Varieties of agency and interaction in Writers’ experiences of their Characters’ Voices (2020)
Journal Article
Foxwell, J., Alderson-Day, B., Fernyhough, C., & Woods, A. (2020). ‘I’ve learned I need to treat my characters like people’: Varieties of agency and interaction in Writers’ experiences of their Characters’ Voices. Consciousness and Cognition, 79, Article 102901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2020.102901

Writers often report vivid experiences of hearing characters talking to them, talking back to them, and exhibiting independence and autonomy. However, systematic empirical studies of this phenomenon are almost non-existent, and as a result little is... Read More about ‘I’ve learned I need to treat my characters like people’: Varieties of agency and interaction in Writers’ experiences of their Characters’ Voices.

The Recovery Narrative: Politics and Possibilities of a Genre (2019)
Journal Article
Woods, A., Hart, A., & Spandler, H. (2022). The Recovery Narrative: Politics and Possibilities of a Genre. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 46(2), 221-247. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-019-09623-y

Recovery is now widely acknowledged as the dominant approach to the management of mental distress and illness in government, third-sector and some peer-support contexts across the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the Anglophone Global North. Although... Read More about The Recovery Narrative: Politics and Possibilities of a Genre.

Introduction (2016)
Book Chapter
Whitehead, A., & Woods, A. (2016). Introduction. In A. Whitehead, A. Woods, S. Atkinson, J. Macnaughton, & J. Richards (Eds.), The Edinburgh companion to the critical medical humanities (1-31). Edinburgh University Press

Interdisciplinary collaboration in action: tracking the signal, tracing the noise (2015)
Journal Article
Callard, F., Fitzgerald, D., & Woods, A. (2015). Interdisciplinary collaboration in action: tracking the signal, tracing the noise. Palgrave communications, 1, https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2015.19

Interdisciplinarity is often framed as an unquestioned good within and beyond the academy, one to be encouraged by funders and research institutions alike. And yet there is little research on how interdisciplinary projects actually work—and do not wo... Read More about Interdisciplinary collaboration in action: tracking the signal, tracing the noise.

Critical Medical Humanities: Embracing Entanglement, Taking Risks (2015)
Journal Article
Viney, W., Callard, F., & Woods, A. (2015). Critical Medical Humanities: Embracing Entanglement, Taking Risks. Medical Humanities, 41(1), 2-7. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2015-010692

What can the medical humanities achieve? This paper does not seek to define what is meant by the medical humanities, nor to adjudicate the exact disciplinary or interdisciplinary knowledges it should offer, but rather to consider what it might be cap... Read More about Critical Medical Humanities: Embracing Entanglement, Taking Risks.

Experiences of hearing voices: analysis of a novel phenomenological survey (2015)
Journal Article
Woods, A., Jones, N., Alderson-Day, B., Callard, F., & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Experiences of hearing voices: analysis of a novel phenomenological survey. The Lancet Psychiatry, 2(4), 323-331. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366%2815%2900006-1

Background: Auditory hallucinations—or voices—are a common feature of many psychiatric disorders and are also experienced by individuals with no psychiatric history. Understanding of the variation in subjective experiences of hallucination is central... Read More about Experiences of hearing voices: analysis of a novel phenomenological survey.

Book Review. Medicine, Health and the Arts: Approaches to the Medical Humanities. Edited by Victoria Bates, Alan Bleakley, Sam Goodman. Published by Routledge, 2013, hardback, 304 pages. ISBN 978-0415644310, £84.99 (2014)
Journal Article
Woods, A. (2014). Book Review. Medicine, Health and the Arts: Approaches to the Medical Humanities. Edited by Victoria Bates, Alan Bleakley, Sam Goodman. Published by Routledge, 2013, hardback, 304 pages. ISBN 978-0415644310, £84.99. Medical Humanities, 40(2), 146-148. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2014-010500