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Auditory Hallucinations

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In a postmodernist world, psychologists grapple with problems of understanding social norms and treating supposed unhealthy deviations thereof. This essay will illustrate the complexity of the issue using the example of auditory hallucinations.

An excellent start to the discussion comes from a TED talk by Elyn Saks (2012). Saks’ narrative provides an empowering and terrifying of her life as a schizophrenic. One of the symptoms Saks eludes to is the manifestation of sounds that had no noticeable source, associating these sounds as inherently negative by-products of her illness.

Saks’ perspective on auditory perceptual disturbences is not anuncoomon one. Hearing voices has been grounded in modern Western culture as synonymous with the onset …show more content…

Because of negative associations of schizophrenics as unable to integrate into the community, many in the modern world life in self-shame when auditory hallucinations begin appearing (Tang & Wu, 2012). Even Saks (2012) herself, an American, perpetuates this belief in her talk when stating “Everything about this illness says I shouldn 't be here, but I am.”

Ethnocentrisms should not detract from the truth, as parts of the world have a wildly different perception of auditory hallucinations (Hearing Voices Network, 2012). In an article by Olga Khozan (2013), the link between perceptions of hearing voices and cultural surroundings is stressed. The Dagara people are an example of one of the numerous cultures where hearing voices has zero association with schizophrenia, and instead tied to a call from the spirits to become a traditional healer (Marohn, …show more content…

The lack of census has poor implications for psychologists’ understandings of mental illness. On the one hand, auditory hallucinations brings with it negative implications but as well as better treatment, worse stigma. On the other hand, one of the most warning symptoms of schizophrenia is praised without treatment in countless cultures. A science defined by treating those who tread too far from safe and normal is put in jeopardy when societies keep these lines

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