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The Phenomena of Auditory Hallucination as Described by Indonesian People Living With Schizophrenia

The Phenomena of Auditory Hallucination as Described by Indonesian People Living With Schizophrenia
Suryani Suryani, Anthony Welch, Leonie Cox
Universitas Padjadjaran, Archives of Psychiatric Nursing 27 (2013) 312–318 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect, journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/apnu
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Universitas Padjadjaran, Archives of Psychiatric Nursing 27 (2013) 312–318 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect, journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/apnu
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This study was a phenomenological inquiry of the experience of auditory hallucinations as described by 13 Indonesian people diagnosed with schizophrenia. The interviewees included 6 men and 7 women and they were aged between 19 and 56 years. Four themes emerged from this study: feeling more like a robot than a human being; voices of contradiction – a point of confusion; tattered relationships and family disarray; and normalizing the presence of voices as part of everyday life. The findings of this study have the potential to contribute to new understandings of how people live with and manage auditory hallucinations and so enhance client-centered nursing care.

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