Call for papers: ICHR/ECHR 2026 (deadline June 15) The next meeting of ICHR will be at TU Munich (Oct 19-21), hosted by the fantastic @franziskaknolle.bsky.social! Get your abstracts in and join us for *the* meeting on voices, visions, presences & more - with 5 stellar keynotes 1/n

Call for papers: ICHR/ECHR 2026 (deadline June 15) The next meeting of ICHR will be at TU Munich (Oct 19-21), hosted by the fantastic @franziskaknolle.bsky.social! Get your abstracts in and join us for *the* meeting on voices, visions, presences & more - with 5 stellar keynotes 1/n

This was such a fun article to write about Tulpamancers, based on our research as part of the @echrhallucinations.bsky.social and @theichr.bsky.social

The Psychologist@psychmag.bsky.social · 4mo ago

‘Tulpas are not simply a companion imagined into being on a whim’ @dremmaclaire.bsky.social on tulpamancers. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Delusional Themes are More Varied Than Previously Assumed: A Comprehensive Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis @theichr.bsky.social @vaughanbell.bsky.social @echrhallucinations.bsky.social academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

Delusional Themes are More Varied Than Previously Assumed: A Comprehensive Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Delusions are classified into themes but the range of themes reported in the literature has never been examined and the

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‘It was like a little family’: A qualitative study of online hearing voices peer support groups in the NHS @theichr.bsky.social @echrhallucinations.bsky.social bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice</em> | BPS Journal | Wiley Online Library

Objectives To investigate the experiences of individuals attending an online hearing voices peer support group (HVG) conducted within the UK's National Health Service (NHS). The purpose of the study.....

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Join us in Munich for this year's satellite meeting of @theichr.bsky.social and @echrhallucinations.bsky.social. We have a stellar lineup already but we're also very excited to announce Eleanor Longden as a keynote! Get your abstracts in; deadline Jun 15. Details at hallucinationsconsortium.org

First session today at #SIRS2026 is a debate about Renaming Schizophrenia. Dr Stefan Leucht argues yes, if we rename we can choose a name that is not stigmatised. Maybe Positive & Negative Syndrome? Dr Wolfgang Gaebel says no. We’ve already renamed it multiple times! What do you think?

Symposium at #SIRS2026 on Responsible use of GenAI in psychosis. Eric Lin presented a great paper & found users can enter lengthy spirals of conversation with chatbots where the validation from GenAI can lead to much longer conversation. Preprint here arxiv.org/pdf/2603.16567

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Challenges and priorities in researching and managing altered perceptual experiences: Shared academic and lived experience perspectives

Within clinical environments and empirical research, discussions of atypical perceptual experiences (APE; i.e., hallucination) tend to centre on voice…

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Hugely looking forward to this next year - if you work on voices, visions, presences or unusual experiences of any kind, keen an eye out for the CfP in the new year....

The International Consortium on Hallucinations Research@theichr.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Save the Date: The next ICHR Satellite Meeting will be in Munich, Sep 21-24 2026! Hosted by @franziskaknolle.bsky.social & co-organised with @echrhallucinations.bsky.social, this will be our 5th satellite meeting and first trip to Germany. hallucinationconsortium.org

Really enjoyed talking about delusions as embodied, affective and relational experience yesterday at one of our IMH lunchtime seminars! Great questions and lots more to work on in the new year!

Save the Date: The next ICHR Satellite Meeting will be in Munich, Sep 21-24 2026! Hosted by @franziskaknolle.bsky.social & co-organised with @echrhallucinations.bsky.social, this will be our 5th satellite meeting and first trip to Germany. hallucinationconsortium.org

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New from the band formerly known as Hearing the Voice...a short paper about felt presence and early psychosis. We report some basic links to things like fear and quoted examples from our "Voices in Psychosis" study 1/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

..and you can read the interdisciplinary extravaganza - including perspectives from psychology, philosophy, linguistics, religious studies, anthropology, english & medical humanities - in this collection we did based on the original study. And it's all free to read! 3/3 academic.oup.com/book/44440

Voices in Psychosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Abstract. Voices in Psychosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives deepens and extends the understanding of hearing voices in psychosis in a striking way. For t

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You can find the original study here - it focused on the phenomenology and personification of voices in early psychosis 2/3 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33484268/

Voice-Hearing and Personification: Characterizing Social Qualities of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Early Psychosis - PubMed

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' early voice-hearing experiences. We invited Early Inte …

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Please help share 🙏🏽 @chrisdjtaylor.bsky.social @aldersonday.bsky.social @theichr.bsky.social @sirsofficial.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social

The Mental Elf@thementalelf.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Distressing mental images affect around 3 in 4 people with psychosis. They can feel vivid, emotional, and overwhelming, yet are rarely addressed in therapy. The iMAPS-2 trial tested a therapy focused on these images and their link to negative beliefs. 🧵 THREAD #iMAPS2 #Psychosis #ElfHelp

Great to have the iMAPS-2 RCT published as part of this special issue doi.org/10.1093/schb...

iMAgery Focused Therapy for PSychosis (iMAPS-2): An Assessor-blind Feasibility Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Intrusive mental images and negative schematic beliefs have been identified as maintenance and possible causal factors f

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The International Consortium on Hallucinations Research@theichr.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The ICHR Special Supplement 2025 is out! New in Schiz Bull, find work from six of our international working groups, ft. new reviews on sleep dysfunction, cog development, psychedelics, cross-cultural comparisons, & the bodily self, plus the iMAPS 2 Imagery RCT! hallucinationconsortium.org

@sirsofficial.bsky.social Eds. Humpston & Alderson-Day - bodily self (Giersch) - cog. development (Fernyhough) -voice-hearing in Thailand (Cassaniti) - inner speech & absorption (Schille-Hudson) - psychedelics (Heller & Leptourgos) - imagery-focused therapy (Taylor) - sleep (Sheaves & Brederoo)

The International Consortium on Hallucinations Research@theichr.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The ICHR Special Supplement 2025 is out! New in Schiz Bull, find work from six of our international working groups, ft. new reviews on sleep dysfunction, cog development, psychedelics, cross-cultural comparisons, & the bodily self, plus the iMAPS 2 Imagery RCT! hallucinationconsortium.org

The ICHR Special Supplement 2025 is out! New in Schiz Bull, find work from six of our international working groups, ft. new reviews on sleep dysfunction, cog development, psychedelics, cross-cultural comparisons, & the bodily self, plus the iMAPS 2 Imagery RCT! hallucinationconsortium.org

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The ICHR Special Supplement 2025 is out! New in Schiz Bull, find work from six of our international working groups, ft. new reviews on sleep dysfunction, cog development, psychedelics, cross-cultural comparisons, & the bodily self, plus the iMAPS 2 Imagery RCT! hallucinationconsortium.org

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New from us, led by the fantastic @elisavetpappa.bsky.social: Who Are People with Psychosis Delusional about? A Study of Social Agents in the Phenomenology of Delusions karger.com/psp/article/...

Who Are People with Psychosis Delusional about? A Study of Social Agents in the Phenomenology of Delusions

Abstract. Introduction: Delusions frequently involve strong beliefs about, or interactions with, illusory social agents. Although such agents have been systematically described in hallucinations, few ...

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I finally gave my Professorial Inaugural Lecture. A great night with friends, family, & colleagues, & sharing the stage with a good friend @cmcgettigan.bsky.social🥂 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsTG... Bookmarks flag both my lecture and @celiaheyes.bsky.social’s (far more entertaining!) intro

McGettigan and Press Inaugural Professorial Lectures 2025

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Anotehr blog post from me re: open research. This time on pre-prints: echr.group/2025/10/31/w... Not mentioned in that blog, but the folks @asapbio.bsky.social have a great resource on pre-printing here: asapbio.org/about/why-pr...

Why should I use pre-prints?

Traditional scientific publishing is slow and is often pay-walled. That is, there is normally a long delay between submitting your manuscript for publication and that manuscript being published (an…

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Our new article discussing the benefits of integrating insights from dynamical systems theory and phenomenological self-disturbance research to improve early identification and treatment of psychosis just appeared in @thelancet.com. Freely available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Integrating dynamical systems theory and phenomenology to enhance early identification and treatment of psychotic disorders

In the past three decades, psychiatric research has increasingly focused on the early subthreshold stages of psychosis, with the aim of improving the …

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@echrhallucinations.bsky.social Future leaders of hallucinations research

It was an absolute joy this week to chair my second meeting of @theichr.bsky.social hosted by the wonderful @parkbmb.bsky.social in Nashville. So much excellent work from ICHR & @echrhallucinations.bsky.social - thank you to all who presented! #ICHR2025

Hi all!👋 This year, my sabbatical will focus on learning more about the brain, esp. neural mechanisms behind social theory of mind & affect. This includes its breakdowns, e.g. psychosis, hallucinations and delusions related to ToM. I'll be posting what I learn along the way. Thanks for connecting! ☺️

That’s a wrap! #ICHR2025 so brilliantly & generously hosted by @parkbmb.bsky.social, @ccrosenphd.bsky.social & marvellous Park Lab team @theichr.bsky.social chair @aldersonday.bsky.social pays special tribute to speakers, working group leads & ECRs

On a personal note, it was a huge honour to be an invited speaker at #ICHR2025 and to fly the flag for interdisciplinary approaches to the phenomenology of voices. Such an inspiring group of people and a wonderful three days!

The International Consortium on Hallucinations Research@theichr.bsky.social · last yr.

Day 3 of #ICHR2025 has started with a fantastic keynote from @literarti.bsky.social on the complexities of command hallucinations - a tour de force!

Delighted to be a part of this session at @theichr.bsky.social sharing preliminary results from our ongoing TMS study. Huge thank you to @parkbmb.bsky.social for hosting at the fantastic Vanderbilt University.

The International Consortium on Hallucinations Research@theichr.bsky.social · last yr.

Session 3 has seen some excellent work on predictive coding, speech, voices and cortical excitability. Thank you Judy Thompson @haydnjfarrelly.bsky.social @franziskaknolle.bsky.social & Ana Pinheiro!