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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 20 January 2025

Debate

Mental Health Bill [HL]

Contribution

Last year, there was a study in the UK on avatar therapy for people who hear voices, also known as auditory hallucinations. That was said to provide potentially life-changing results for people with psychosis. It could reduce both the voices heard by an individual and the distress that these voices can cause. This is interesting, breakthrough research, using a different kind of technique that someone who was trained 20 or 30 years ago is extremely unlikely ever to have been exposed to—we would hope that they are keeping up, but there is so much out there from so many different directions.

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