ABOUT BOOK

Inner speech is a pervasive feature of our conscious lives.1 But what is ~inner speech, and what happens in unconscious processing that makes ~it the conscious experience that it is? A clue to answering this can be ~found in cases where the mechanisms that produce inner speaking ~behave unusually. In this paper, we suggest an account of a specific ~instance of this, namely, a particular subtype of auditory verbal hallucination ~(AVH), and draw some lessons about the processes that underlie ~normal inner speech.