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The "tone" of voices heard by schizophrenics is influenced by culture, as reported here:
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/july/voices-culture-luhrmann-071614.html
I'm sorry the original research is behind a pay wall . This is really fascinating to me!
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/july/voices-culture-luhrmann-071614.html
I'm sorry the original research is behind a pay wall . This is really fascinating to me!
The findings revealed that hearing voices was broadly similar across all three cultures, according to Luhrmann. Many of those interviewed reported both good and bad voices, and conversations with those voices, as well as whispering and hissing that they could not quite place physically. Some spoke of hearing from God while others said they felt like their voices were an "assault" upon them.
The striking difference was that while many of the African and Indian subjects registered predominantly positive experiences with their voices, not one American did. Rather, the U.S. subjects were more likely to report experiences as violent and hateful – and evidence of a sick condition.
The Americans experienced voices as bombardment and as symptoms of a brain disease caused by genes or trauma.