Very Present and Very Real: A Case Study of Regularly Hearing the Voice of the Deceased Without Distress in Bereavement.
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| Název: | Very Present and Very Real: A Case Study of Regularly Hearing the Voice of the Deceased Without Distress in Bereavement. |
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| Autoři: | Vilhauer RP; Psychologist in Private Practice, Wayne, NJ, USA. |
| Zdroj: | Omega [Omega (Westport)] 2025 Dec; Vol. 92 (2), pp. 1080-1097. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Aug 09. |
| Způsob vydávání: | Journal Article; Case Reports |
| Jazyk: | English |
| Informace o časopise: | Publisher: Sage Publications Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 1272106 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1541-3764 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00302228 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Omega (Westport) Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Publication: 2015- : Los Angeles Sage Publications Original Publication: Westport, Conn., Greenwood Periodicals. |
| Výrazy ze slovníku MeSH: | Attitude to Death* , Bereavement* , Hallucinations*/psychology, Humans ; Grief |
| Abstrakt: | Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Although sensory and quasi-sensory experiences of the deceased (SED) have been the subject of much debate, research on the phenomenology of auditory verbal experiences in the bereaved has been neglected. This case study describes the phenomenology of a regularly occurring voice hearing experience and its meaning for a single bereaved individual. The voice of the deceased can be heard as though in external space, and the experience can feel real, even when the death is fully acknowledged. A bereaved individual can welcome and benefit from the experience even when it is not recognized as a normal part of grieving in the individual's cultural context, when no afterlife belief is present, and when the experience remains unexplained. The case study demonstrates that hearing the voice of the deceased can be a regular occurrence without causing distress or dysfunction and lends support to the idea that SED are a common concomitant of normal bereavement. |
| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: bereavement; continuing bond; hallucination; sense of presence; voice hearing |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20230809 Date Completed: 20251021 Latest Revision: 20251202 |
| Update Code: | 20251202 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/00302228231195104 |
| PMID: | 37556152 |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.<br />Although sensory and quasi-sensory experiences of the deceased (SED) have been the subject of much debate, research on the phenomenology of auditory verbal experiences in the bereaved has been neglected. This case study describes the phenomenology of a regularly occurring voice hearing experience and its meaning for a single bereaved individual. The voice of the deceased can be heard as though in external space, and the experience can feel real, even when the death is fully acknowledged. A bereaved individual can welcome and benefit from the experience even when it is not recognized as a normal part of grieving in the individual's cultural context, when no afterlife belief is present, and when the experience remains unexplained. The case study demonstrates that hearing the voice of the deceased can be a regular occurrence without causing distress or dysfunction and lends support to the idea that SED are a common concomitant of normal bereavement. |
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| ISSN: | 1541-3764 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/00302228231195104 |