ABSTRACT
Since the mid 1980s, there has been a growing body of research showing that many people with psychosis have suffered from traumatic experiences. Mueser (1998) reported that in a population of psychotic patients, nearly everybody (98 per cent) had experienced trauma, while in the case history, only seldom (2 per cent) was this acknowledged and reported. It does seem that trauma does not get enough attention as an aetiological factor in the development of psychosis. This is also the case with people hearing voices. In psychiatry this experience is called ‘auditory hallucinations’ and is interpreted as a psychotic illness.
