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Tanya Luhrmann, with the help of others, interviewed sixty people diagnosed with schizophrenia, 20 people from each of 3 countries. She determined that, while they had quite a few similarities with good and bad voices, there were also some shocking differences ( Luhrmann, T. ). The individuals from the United States described their condition as a “brain disease”, and were drastically negative in their experiences (Luhrmann, T.) However, the individuals from India often described relationships with the voices in their head, even talking about how they were relatives or friends that would give them advice in their lives, they even described the voices as being positive. But, the voices head in the individual’s from Ghana were described as God like or extremely religious, half of the people interviewed described their experiences as being completely positive (Luhrmann, T.). The book discusses schizophrenia, “severe psychological disorder characterized by loss of contact with reality, hallucinations, delusions, inappropriate or flat affect, some disturbance in thinking, social withdrawal, and other bizarre behavior” (Boyd 394). The voices heard inside the peoples’ heads would be described as hallucinations, “an imaginary sensation” (Boyd 394). It is good that we are delving further into the differences in people with the same mental disability, it is going to benefit us in the future to know that the effects of an illness can vary across the world.

References: Luhrmann, T., Padmavati, R., Tharoor, H., & Osei, A. (2014). Differences in voice-hearing experiences of people with psychosis in the × USA, India and Ghana: interview-based study The [|British Journal] of Psychiatry

Wood, Samuel E., Ellen R. Green. Wood, and Denise Roberts. Boyd. //Mastering the World of Psychology//. Fourth ed. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2011. Print.

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