title: The experience of voice hearing and the role of self-help group: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) played an important role in the psychiatric diagnostics, but in the last few decades the diagnostic-free complex phenomenological understanding of the phenomena of voice hearing became the focus of studies.
  
  
  METHODS
  Six semi-structured interviews with recovering voice hearers were conducted and analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The self-help group gives significant help in identification and dealing with the voices; therefore, it serves as turning point in the life story of voice hearers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Applying self-help group in clinical context contributes to better outcomes in treatment of voice hearers.
authors.affiliation: 1 Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.|2 Faculty of Health Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: József
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rácz
authors.affiliation: 1 Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Zsuzsa
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kaló
authors.affiliation: 1 Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.|3 Doctoral School of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Szilvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kassai
authors.affiliation: 1 Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Márta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kiss
authors.affiliation: 4 Institute of Psychology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.
authors.forename: Judit Nóra
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Pintér
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D014831:Voice
keywords: Voice hearing; first-person account; interpretative phenomenological analysis; interview; qualitative; self-help group