The phenomenological differences in auditory hallucinations between schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder (BPD) are unclear in the existing literature, in part due to underpowered studies and heterogeneous research populations that do not represent those in the acute clinical setting. This study addresses this by using patient records to compare auditory hallucinations at the point of clinical psychiatric assessment for 341 unique patients, 165 with BPD and 176 with schizophrenia....

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CONCLUSION: Symptoms of AIWS and other positive disorders of perception are common among contemporary painters who frequently use distortions in their figurative work, although perhaps not more common than in the general population. Artists in the disrupted-realism movement tend not to mimic their own perceptual distortions in their work, although they do feel inspired to distort their work in different ways.

Inner dialogue and inner speech are normal systems of cerebral intrapersonal communication, crucial to self-awareness. Lesions affecting the cerebral network involved in these systems have been associated with the occurrence of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (AVHs). These are regarde as a continuum phenomenon experienced by healthy, individuals, as well as those with psychiatric disorders. In this paper, two patients with left hemispheric lesions of different pathologies, vascular and tumor,...