Auditory Hallucination Among Traumatized Cambodian Refugees: PTSD Association and Biocultural Shaping

• Published in: Culture, medicine and psychiatry Vol. 45; no. 4; pp. 727 - 750
• Main Author: Hinton, Devon E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.12.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Anthropology; Auditory hallucinations; Clinical Psychology; Death & dying; Genocide; Ghosts; Hallucinations; Hearing; Khmer; Original Paper; Patients; Post traumatic stress disorder; Psychiatry; Psychosis; Public Health; Refugees; Schizophrenia; Social Sciences; Sociology; Subjectivity; Trauma; Traumatic incidents; PTSD; Psychosis; Hallucination; Trauma; Cambodian; Culture

At a psychiatric refugee clinic for survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide, a survey revealed that 42% (38/90) had auditory hallucinations (AHs) in the last month. Of those with AHs, 87% (33/38) had PTSD, whereas of those without AHs, 31% (16/52) had PTSD, giving a chi square of 27.8, p < .001, od...