It is unknown to what extent mental imagery and auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are related. Trials evaluating this issue used both emotional and non-emotional mental imagery tools, thereby complicating outcomes comparisons. Therefore, the present study aimed to systematically review the literature on mental imagery in individuals with AVHs to (1) inventory imagery assessment tools used in this population, (2) to collect information on the relation between emotional and non-emotional mental imagery in all sensory domains and AVHs and (3) to integrate the outcomes of this systematic review in a model of different mental imagery domains and related assessment tools. We conducted a systematic literature search in the PubMed Database. After full-text screening, 17 papers were included. Findings showed that a variety of assessment methods have been used to assess various aspects of mental imagery in people with AVHs, suggesting that there is a lack of agreed theoretical conceptualization of mental imagery and AVHs. In addition, the studies confirmed as was expected that non-emotional mental imagery seemed unrelated to AVHs whereas emotional mental imagery was related to AVHs. Lastly, we proposed a model of mental imagery domains and corresponding assessment methods distinguishing between emotional and non-emotional mental imagery.

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情绪和非情绪心理意象和听觉言语幻觉（听到声音）：意象评估工具的系统回顾

目前尚不清楚心理意象和幻听（AVH）之间的关联程度。评估这个问题的试验使用了情感和非情感心理意象工具，从而使结果比较复杂化。因此，本研究旨在系统地回顾有关 AVH 个体心理意象的文献，以（1）盘点该人群中使用的意象评估工具，（2）收集有关所有患者的情感和非情感心理意象之间关系的信息。感觉域和 AVH 以及 (3) 将本次系统评价的结果整合到不同心理意象域和相关评估工具的模型中。我们在 PubMed 数据库中进行了系统的文献检索。经全文筛选，纳入论文17篇。研究结果表明，多种评估方法已被用来评估 AVH 患者心理意象的各个方面，这表明心理意象和 AVH 缺乏一致的理论概念。此外，研究证实，正如预期的那样，非情绪心理意象似乎与 AVH 无关，而情绪心理意象与 AVH 相关。最后，我们提出了心理意象领域的模型以及区分情感和非情感心理意象的相应评估方法。