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How anxiety induces verbal hallucinations (2015)
Journal Article
Ratcliffe, M., & Wilkinson, S. (2016). How anxiety induces verbal hallucinations. Consciousness and Cognition, 39, 48-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2015.11.009

Verbal hallucinations are often associated with pronounced feelings of anxiety, and it has also been suggested that anxiety somehow triggers them. In this paper, we offer a phenomenological or ‘personal-level’ account of how it does so. We show how a... Read More about How anxiety induces verbal hallucinations.

Voices and Thoughts in Psychosis: An Introduction (2015)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, S., & Alderson-Day, B. (2016). Voices and Thoughts in Psychosis: An Introduction. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 7(3), 529-540. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-015-0288-6

In this introduction we present the orthodox account of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), a number of worries for this account, and some potential responses open to its proponents. With some problems still remaining, we then introduce the proble... Read More about Voices and Thoughts in Psychosis: An Introduction.

A Mental Files Approach to Delusional Misidentification (2015)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, S. (2016). A Mental Files Approach to Delusional Misidentification. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 7(2), 389-404. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-015-0260-5

I suggest that we can think of delusional misidentification in terms of systematic errors in the management of mental files. I begin by sketching the orthodox “bottom-up” aetiology of delusional misidentification. I suggest that the orthodox aetiolog... Read More about A Mental Files Approach to Delusional Misidentification.

Thought Insertion Clarified (2015)
Journal Article
Ratcliffe, M., & Wilkinson, S. (2015). Thought Insertion Clarified. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 22(11-12), 246-269

'Thought insertion' in schizophrenia involves somehow experiencing one's own thoughts as someone else's. Some philos-ophers try to make sense of this by distinguishing between ownership and agency: one still experiences oneself as the owner of an ins... Read More about Thought Insertion Clarified.