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COMMENTARY VOICE [1 record]

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Record 1 2018-04-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

Prominent hallucinations of a voice with content having no apparent relation to depression or elation, or a voice keeping up a running commentary on the person's behavior or thoughts, or two or more voices conversing with each other.

CONT

Auditory hallucinations can be complex, with multiple speakers that can be, in rare cases, cacophonous. The speakers may talk about the patient, sometimes in a derogatory manner, these are referred to as commentary voices.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
CONT

[Les hallucinations auditives constituent] une voix unique et invariable ou bien ce sont des voix variables, multiples, en chœur et souvent en conversation directe avec l'halluciné, ou en conversation indirecte entre elles [...] Leur contenu peut être [...] des phénomènes très fréquents [comme] le commentaire des actes [...]

Spanish

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