Abstract
This article presents a report on the 2nd meeting of the International Consortium on Hallucination Research, held on September 12th and 13th 2013 at Durham University, UK. Twelve working groups involving specialists in each area presented their findings and sought to summarize the available knowledge, inconsistencies in the field, and ways to progress. The 12 working groups reported on the following domains of investigation: cortical organisation of hallucinations, nonclinical hallucinations, interdisciplinary approaches to phenomenology, culture and hallucinations, subtypes of auditory verbal hallucinations, a Psychotic Symptoms Rating Scale multisite study, visual hallucinations in the psychosis spectrum, hallucinations in children and adolescents, Research Domain Criteria behavioral constructs and hallucinations, new methods of assessment, psychological therapies, and the Hearing Voices Movement approach to understanding and working with voices. This report presents a summary of this meeting and outlines 10 hot spots for hallucination research, which include the in-depth examination of (1) the social determinants of hallucinations, (2) translation of basic neuroscience into targeted therapies, (3) different modalities of hallucination, (4) domain convergence in cross-diagnostic studies, (5) improved methods for assessing hallucinations in nonclinical samples, (6) using humanities and social science methodologies to recontextualize hallucinatory experiences, (7) developmental approaches to better understand hallucinations, (8) changing the memory or meaning of past trauma to help recovery, (9) hallucinations in the context of sleep and sleep disorders, and (10) subtypes of hallucinations in a therapeutic context.
Highlights
Since 2011, the International Consortium on Hallu cination Research (ICHR) has existed as a platform for researchers to meet and collaborate on hallucination research projects and as a vehicle for the cross fertilization of ideas amongst individuals with different areas of expertise
The second meeting of the ICHR was held on September 12th and 13th 2013, at Durham University, UK
At the conclusion of the meeting, discussions reiterated the value of the ICHR as a forum for the cross fertilization of ideas and the importance of interdisciplinary research in this area
Summary
Since 2011, the International Consortium on Hallu cination Research (ICHR) has existed as a platform for researchers to meet and collaborate on hallucination research projects and as a vehicle for the cross fertilization of ideas amongst individuals with different areas of expertise. This report presents a summary of this meeting and identifies 10 “hot spots” for future research. It was concluded that (1) future meetings should broaden their scope to include hallucinations across different modalities, and that (2) perspectives from the humanities and social sciences should be adopted in order to obtain a deeper understanding of hallucination phenomenology and to locate hallucinatory experiences in richer personal and social contexts.
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