Hearing Soundless Voices

Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 26 (3):27-34 (2019)
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Abstract

The phenomenon of 'hearing voices,' often viewed as a symptom of schizophrenia, is commonly called, in the scientific and clinical literature, 'auditory-verbal hallucination.' However, reports of hearing soundless voices, voices that are not auditory, which go as far back as Tuttle and Kraepelin and appear in phenomenological interviews and questionnaires are relatively common. What are we to make of such reports?One option is to dismiss these claims: one cannot hear soundless voices. This dismissal could be due to a combination of the following seemingly reasonable claims, each sufficient to consign the notion of 'hearing soundless voices' to the status...

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