Abstract
The idea that the content of delusions and hallucinations may have meaning or be symbolically significant is not new. From a psychodynamic perspective, the experience of psychosis has long been conceptualised as a defence against unbearable or unmanageable emotions (Martindaleetal2013)andthecontentofpsychoticexperiencesistherefore considered to have meaning and relevance for clinical practice (Martindale 2007). In adult samples, the content of delusions and hallucinations has been found to be associated with the experience of trauma and abuse (Raune et al. 2006, Reiff et al. 2012). To the best of our knowledge, no study to date has examined the content of sub-clinical psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) using non-clinical child or adolescent samples. This study aims to identify the presence of themes in the content of PLEs among children and adolescents from the general population and to examine associations between the content of the psychotic experience and adverse or abusive life events.
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