When the brain speaks without our permission
What brain scans show, Julian Jaynes’s bicameral mind theory, and how culture shapes the way people hear voices.
Hearing voices
Why people hear voices, and what happens in the brain when they do.
Latest in Hearing voices
Opinion
What recovery looked like for Eleanor Longden
A psychologist who still hears voices describes how she went from wanting to drill them out of her head to living alongside them.
Explainer
Making sense of voices: the Maastricht approach
How a Dutch psychiatrist's patient changed the way some clinicians work with voices, and what the evidence shows so far.
Opinion
A voice is not a stranger
Questions about the approach behind AVATAR therapy, and the message it sends.
Explainer
What happens inside the brain that hears voices?
Four major theories on the origin of voices, and what neuroimaging shows about each.
