Thanks a lot for sharing, i have deepest respect for the author, Joseph Parnass.
Im tired tonight, so i have just skimmed the text, but this is very accurate, in fact i myself use the term “thought voices” even before i read this text:
“As pointed out by Jones and Luhrmann (2016) the official definition of AVH, as a perception without object, does not correspond to the nature of AVH in schizophrenia and is therefore empirically incorrect. We believe that it would be appropriate to define the AVH in schizophrenia, not as an erroneous perception, but in more descriptive terms, useful for the clinician and the researcher alike. We think that the term “thought-voices” would be more appropriate and should be accompanied by a narrative description of the varieties of hallucinatory experiences”
I have to stress this quote too, it’s just what i experience:
"In schizophrenia, the patient may experience thoughts that have lost their sense of mineness, varieties of thought interference, thought pressure, varieties of spoken or written thoughts or a strange distance to one’s own thoughts (Klosterkötter, 1988). In thought interference, certain thoughts acquire an unusual salience attracting their attention (e.g., thought interference). In other words, certain thoughts pop up as unwanted and autonomous, deprived of connection with this stream of consciousness and with diminished sense of ownership (mineness).
Last comment, promise:
Tonight I (bluebutterfly) had an experience of “thought voices.” I was sitting on the sofa watching Tv and little by little I felt like my mind was deteriorating, like the automatic mineness of my situation was questioned. I felt an inner fragility. Then came the first pop-up thoughts. Very hostile, suicidal ideation, mixed with gibberish sentences, and these pop up thoughts felt not like my own thoughts. I had to eat two benzos before they receded and i went back to “the normal flow of thoughts.”