Medical Humanities: Command Hallucinations: What can the medical humanities offer?

With Guest Speaker Angela Woods (Professor of Medical Humanities, Director of Durham's Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University)

Command hallucinations' are widely reported in the literature on hearing voices, well-established as a target of psychotherapeutic interventions, and popularly regarded as a defining (and highly stigmatised) 'symptom' of psychosis. Yet their nature and nuance have seldom been the subject of sustained investigation.

Interdisciplinary approaches are urgently needed, and the critical medical humanities has, I will argue, an important role to play in bridging the phenomenological and historical, social and political, testimonial and therapeutic dimensions of this experience.

Command hallucinations are not only irreducibly relational, they are inextricably

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The Medical Humanities Research Workshop Series is made possible through the support of:

Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford’s Division of Literatures, Cultures & Languages, Stanford’s Department of Anthropology