Friendly voices arise as psychiatric self-defense against accusing voices

Evidence

The appearance of themes of morbid protection, their importance as a technique of self-defense and even of self-cure in the historic development of mental disease, have already been studied in classic psychiatry. Plagued by his accusing “voices,” the victim of hallucinations has no other recourse but to create friendly voices. This mechanism of transformation into its antithesis that we here point out has its counterpart in the disintegrating colonial situation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 341 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hallucinated protective voices parallel the colonized creating a national voice; Hallucinating patients create protective counter-voices to defend against accusing ones — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 341; the MOC “The Loud Cost of Quiet — What We Protect and Sacrifice When We Choose Silence”

Related

• Hallucinating patients create protective counter-voices to defend against accusing ones (similarity 0.93)
• Hallucinated protective voices parallel the colonized creating a national voice (similarity 0.92)

Broader Connections

• Hallucinating patients create protective counter-voices to defend against accusing ones #corroborates (1.00) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 341