Hallucinations. a Guide to Treatment and Management

ABOUT THIS BOOK

• Provides a wide range of different treatment strategies so that clinicians working with different populations can find a treatment strategy that best suits their clinical practice and clinical population
• Describes a range of innovative and recent treatment strategies, introducing the clinician to some they might be less familiar with
• Includes case studies and vignettes helping to illustrate the treatment process, and showing how the clinican might apply the treatment within their own clinical practice

Hallucinations are a troublesome and distressing symptom for countless patients who suffer from psychiatric or neurological conditions. In recent years, a number of new treatment strategies have been developed to help patients suffering from these symptoms.

This book brings together the work of leading experts in this area, to provide a practical guide to the assessment, evaluation, and treatment of hallucinations. It includes a range of interventions, including: Pharmacological, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Hallucinations focused Integrative Therapy (HIT), normalizing techniques, coping strategies, self-help approaches, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attention Training Technique, Competitive Memory Training, appraisal-based cognitive therapy, and cognitive therapy for command hallucinations. As well as providing practical advice, the chapters also contain overviews of the respective areas of research, including references to the evidence base for each intervention - highlighting those interventions in need of more empirical support. Each chapter describes how to evaluate and treat the patient, often using clinical vignettes or case studies to illustrate the treatment process.

The book will be a valuable guide for psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and counsellors, increasingly required to help patients suffering from these distressing symptoms.

Readership: Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Counsellors

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Edited by Frank Larøi, University of Liège, Belgium and Intercommunale de Soins Spécialisés de Liège (Mental Health Sector), Liège, Belgium, and André Aleman, Neuroimaging Centre, Groningen

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1: Frank Larøi and André Aleman: Introduction
2: Julio Sanjuan, Eduardo J. Aguilar and Francesc Artigas: Pharmacological treatment of hallucinations
3: André Aleman and Ralph Hoffman: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
4: Ben Smith, Brendan O'Sullivan, Phillip Watson, Juliana Onwumere, Paul Bebbington, Philippa Garety, Daniel Freeman, David Fowler and Elizabeth Kuipers: Individual Cognitive Behavioural Therapy of auditory-verbal hallucinations
5: Louise Johns and Til Wykes: Group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for psychosis
6: Peter Trower, Max Birchwood and Alan Meaden: Appraisals: Voices' power and purpose
7: Alan Meaden, Max Birchwood and Peter Trower: Cognitive therapy for command hallucinations
8: Lucia R. Valmaggia and Eric Morris: Attention Training Technique and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for distressing auditory hallucinations
9: Mark van der Gaag and Kees Korrelboom: Competitive Memory Training
10: Jack A. Jenner: Hallucinations focused Integrative Therapy (HIT)
11: Michael Garrett: 'Normalizing' the voice hearing experience: The continuum between auditory hallucinations and ordinary mental life
12: John Farhall: Understanding and shaping adaptive coping with voices
13: Marius Romme and Sandra Escher: Personal history and hearing voices
14: Rufus May and Eleanor Longden: Self-help approaches to hearing voices
15: Jean-Louis Goëb and Renaud Jardri: Hallucinations in children and adolescents: Diagnosis and treatment strategies
16: Frank Eperjesi: Visual hallucinations in Charles Bonnet syndrome
17: Urs Peter Mosimann and Daniel Collerton: Hallucinations in the context of dementing illnesses
18: Gilles Fénelon: Hallucinations in Parkinson's Disease
19: Vaughan Bell, Andrea Raballo and Frank Larøi: Assessment of hallucinations