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Voice Hearing Experiences Change After Imagery Rescripting
A study led by Laura Strachan explored how imagery rescripting (ImRs) helps people understand and cope with trauma-related auditory hallucinations.
By José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández, PhD -January 4, 2024
www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/voice-hearing-experiences-change-after-imagery-rescripting/
A new study published in the journal Psychology and Psychotherapy described how people who experience auditory verbal hallucinations made sense of their trauma-related voices and how their experiences change through imagery rescripting (ImRs). This psychological intervention aims to change the meanings of memories related to a person’s presenting problem by using mental imagery. This included finding ways to cope with their distress, having a new sense of safety and self-confidence, and feeling as though their voice had less power over them.
According to the research team led by Laura Strachan at Curtin University in Australia:
“Trauma-related voices may have an underlying protective function, and ImRs may support emotional validation, expression, and processing, which could alter participants’ perspective of their traumatic experiences their self-worth, and improve their ability and confidence to cope with distress and voice. It is possible that the therapeutic alliance in ImRs provides a secure attachment base, which supports the effective cognitive re-appraisal in lieu of less adaptive expressive suppression strategies.”
Voice hearers' explanations of trauma-related voices and processes of change throughout imagery rescripting: A qualitative exploration
Laura P. Strachan, Georgie Paulik, Lynne Roberts, Peter M. McEvoy
First published: 28 August 2023 doi.org/10.1111/papt.12491
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/papt.12491
A study led by Laura Strachan explored how imagery rescripting (ImRs) helps people understand and cope with trauma-related auditory hallucinations.
By José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández, PhD -January 4, 2024
www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/voice-hearing-experiences-change-after-imagery-rescripting/
A new study published in the journal Psychology and Psychotherapy described how people who experience auditory verbal hallucinations made sense of their trauma-related voices and how their experiences change through imagery rescripting (ImRs). This psychological intervention aims to change the meanings of memories related to a person’s presenting problem by using mental imagery. This included finding ways to cope with their distress, having a new sense of safety and self-confidence, and feeling as though their voice had less power over them.
According to the research team led by Laura Strachan at Curtin University in Australia:
“Trauma-related voices may have an underlying protective function, and ImRs may support emotional validation, expression, and processing, which could alter participants’ perspective of their traumatic experiences their self-worth, and improve their ability and confidence to cope with distress and voice. It is possible that the therapeutic alliance in ImRs provides a secure attachment base, which supports the effective cognitive re-appraisal in lieu of less adaptive expressive suppression strategies.”
Voice hearers' explanations of trauma-related voices and processes of change throughout imagery rescripting: A qualitative exploration
Laura P. Strachan, Georgie Paulik, Lynne Roberts, Peter M. McEvoy
First published: 28 August 2023 doi.org/10.1111/papt.12491
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/papt.12491