Hearing Voices: Understanding and Treatment

Dr Colin A. Ross

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$75

Student Price:

$45

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Description

1.5 CPD hours

In this webinar, Dr. Ross will discuss the differential diagnosis and treatment of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) – hearing voices. Voices are widely regarded as a symptom of psychosis with a primary treatment of antipsychotic medication. The standard differential diagnosis is schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder and psychotic depression. However, research demonstrates that AVH are common in borderline personality disorder (BPD), complex PTSD and dissociative identity disorder (DID). For these disorders, the primary treatment of the voices is psychotherapy. In this approach, the voices are understood not as symptoms of brain disease but as disavowed, disowned – dissociated – aspects of self that can be engaged in psychotherapy. Dr. Ross will discuss the differential diagnosis of psychotic versus dissociative voices and will describe the psychotherapy of dissociative voices.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

Describe the differential diagnosis of psychotic versus dissociative auditory hallucinations.
Describe the models that guide the treatment of psychotic versus dissociative voices.
Describe the principles of the psychotherapy of dissociative voices.

About Dr Colin A. Ross

Colin A. Ross, M.D., completed medical school at the University of Alberta and his psychiatry training at the University of Manitoba in Canada. He is a Past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, and is the author of over 270 papers and 36 books. He has spoken widely throughout North America and Europe, and in China, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. He has been a keynote speaker at many different conferences, and has reviewed for over 30 different professional journals.

Dr. Ross directed hospital-based Trauma Programs in Texas from 1991 to 2022. Additionally, he directed programs in Michigan and California for 20 years. He now has his own partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs at two locations in Texas.

Dr. Ross’ books cover a wide range of topics. His clinical books focus on trauma and dissociation and include: Dissociative Identity Disorder. Diagnosis, Clinical Features and Treatment of Multiple Personality, Second Edition (1997); Schizophrenia: Innovations in Diagnosis and Treatment (2004); The Trauma Model: A Solution to the Problem of Comorbidity in Psychiatry (2007); Trauma Model Therapy: A Treatment Approach for Trauma Dissociation and Complex Comorbidity (2009); Structural Dissociation: A Proposed Modification of the Theory (2013); and Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Techniques and Strategies for Stabilization (2018).

Dr. Ross has published a series of treatment outcome studies in peer-reviewed journals, which provide evidence for the effectiveness of Trauma Model Therapy. Many of his papers involve large series of cases, with original research data and statistical analyses, including a paper entitled ‘Trauma and Dissociation in China’ in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Colin has presented for Delphi six times between 1997 – 2023. His 2020 webinar Hearing Voices: Understanding and Treatment is available On-Demand. He was a guest presenter in the webinar, The Elephant in the Room: Trauma Spirituality and Healing