hearers

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If clinicians could better distinguish voice hearers who develop psychosis and lose touch with reality from those who don’t, he thought, then maybe he could help steer more patients down a healthier path.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2025

Internationally acclaimed musicians braved the elements to bring music to parks, gardens and markets, and moved their hearers to both tears and laughter with the power of their playing.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2022

In his homily during the canonization Mass, Francis encouraged his hearers to pursue holiness not as “an unattainable goal,” but rather as something that can be found “in the trials of real life.”

From Washington Times • May 15, 2022

In a previous study in Connecticut, Dr. Corlett and his colleagues found, after testing patients and nonclinical voice hearers, that psychics did not meet diagnostic criteria for a psychotic illness.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2022

I dreaded starting all over, trying to repeat my news in a new language to new hearers, failing again perhaps.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin