On Not Being Terrified of What you Hear
Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis Podcasts
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The DSM and the Schneiderian Voices
For over 50 years, hearing voices in the third world has been closely linked with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. These were called Schneiderian voices after Kurt Schneider, who classified them as such in the 1950s. The fifth edition was published in 2013 and it just merely now says hallucinations. People don't really want to know what the voices are saying - that's another diagnosis. But I think voice hearing has almost fallen foul in some ways. It's sort of like meta narratives, which is this attempt to colonize and reify human experience. And maybe further downstream things get tipped into the river and it becomes muddied or polluted.
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