???? Get to know our publishing house: https://radionaukowe.pl/wydawnictwo ???? Convenient book shopping: https://wydawnictwoRN.pl ???? Become a Patron: https://patronite.pl/radionaukowe ???? Support once: https://suppi.pl/radionaukowe ???? Listen on streaming: https://ffm.bio/radionaukowe ???? Subscribe: / @radionaukowe ???? Website: https://radionaukowe.pl ???? Facebook: / radionaukowe ???? Instagram: / radionaukowe ❌ Twitter: / radionaukowe ???? Visit LAMU: / @letniaakademiamlodychumyslow ???? See more: • Radio Naukowe recommends ???? Contact: [email protected] – About 4-5% of the healthy population regularly hears voices – this is the bombshell that my today's speaker drops guest, Prof. Łukasz Gawęda. He is the head of the Experimental Psychopathology Laboratory at the Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and in his work he is currently dealing with the psychological mechanisms of psychosis. How is it possible that healthy people hear voices? - We live in a very dichotomous world: it seems to us that either someone is healthy or someone is sick. Meanwhile, reality is more complex - explains my interlocutor. Most psychological disorders can be placed on a continuum. In the case of psychotic disorders, the scale leads from normal through social anxiety (the belief that people are dangerous), withdrawal, a relational attitude ("everyone wants to hurt me") to psychosis. - Psychosis is a term reserved for clinical phenomena - my guest states. It means serious disturbances in the perception of reality, most often delusions and hallucinations, but the key to diagnosis here is the patient's discomfort and whether the disorder makes it difficult for them to function normally. We also talk about hallucinations, which many of us experience in a mild form (have you ever heard a ringing or vibrating phone that wasn't actually ringing?). Psychoses are mainly auditory hallucinations (as many as 80% of schizophrenics complain about them), but also visual ones. Is it possible to somehow explain to a person experiencing paranoia that what they hear or see doesn't really exist? Well, no, and we shouldn't. "We treat these experiences as completely real and they are [for patients]," says the scientist. The best treatment is a combination of medication and psychotherapy. The latter helps to make the model of the world in the patient's head more flexible, and teaches them to look for explanations other than paranoid ones. From the episode, you will also learn what factors influence the development of psychosis, how many people have the impression that other people have hostile intentions towards them (a lot!) and whether a psychiatrist would diagnose the disorder in themselves. ???? I recorded the conversation in the RN studio, which I was able to organize thanks to the support at https://patronite.pl/radionaukowe Thank you very much! We have further development plans, if you want to help with them - I encourage you to donate in any amount ???? WE RECOMMEND OTHER MATERIALS: • Radio Naukowe - All episodes • Physics • Biology • Astronomy • Psychology • Animals • Religion • History • History of life • Geography • Technology • Human • Culture • Medicine • Archaeology ???? Radio Naukowe - turn on knowledge! ???? #RadioNaukowe #KarolinaGłowacka #ŁukaszGawęda