DOI: 10.7162/S1809-97772012000300004 Auditory hallucinations in tinnitus patients: Emotional relationships and depression

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. Such hallucinatory phenomena motivated us to study their possible relation to the patients ’ psyches. 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