It affects up to 15% of the population (1) across all age ranges (2,3), but is predominant in the elderly (4,5). Tinnitus is the perception of sound in the absence of a corresponding external sound source.
The knowledge of such findings represents a further step towards the need to adapt the treatment of this particular subgroup of tinnitus patients through interdisciplinary teamwork. Conclusions: There is an important relationship between tinnitus, hallucinatory phenomena, and depression based on persistent recall of facts/situations leading to psychic distress. In all cases, there was a remarkable and strong tendency to recall/repeat unpleasant facts/situations, which tended to exacerbate the distress caused by the tinnitus and hallucinatory phenomena and worsen depressive aspects. The patients' discourse revealed that hallucinatory phenomena played unconscious roles in their emotional life. Results: We found no association between auditory hallucinations and psychosis instead, this phenomenon was associated with depressive aspects. Method: Ten subjects (8 women mean age = 65.7 years) were selected by otolaryngologists and evaluated by the same psychologists through semi-structured interviews, the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, and psychoanalysis interviews. Aims: To assess whether hallucinatory phenomena were related to the patients' psychosis and/or depression, and clarify their content and function in the patients' psyches. Such hallucinatory phenomena motivated us to study their possible relation to the patients' psyches.
Introduction: Over the last few years, our Tinnitus Research Group has identified an increasing number of patients with tinnitus who also complained of repeated perception of complex sounds, such as music and voices. Rosa Maria Rodrigues dos Santos1, Tanit Ganz Sanchez2, Ricardo Ferreira Bento3, Mara Cristina Souza de Lucia4 Auditory hallucinations in tinnitus patients: Emotional relationships and depression. Santos RMR, Sanchez TG, Bento RF, Lucia MCS.
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