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In Partial, Grudging Defense Of The Hearing Voices Movement

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Hearing Voices Movement

Hearing voices movement makes a specific clinical claim, trying to reason with or even befriend your voices works better than trying to repress them. Most of the psychotic people i've talked to say no, at least not trivially. On first inspection, most voices can't be reasoned with. They don't have a genders. But the psyche tends to behave how e expected to behave. If all you consider friends and authorities in your social group say that voices talk back and negotiate, might voicestalk back and negotiate? The entire western occult tradition says, yes. See julian janes and ethan waters for more links on hearing voices.

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