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  • Kusztrits, I., Toh, W. L., Thomas, N., Laroi, F., Meyer, D., Hirstein, M., & Rossell, S. (2022). From core schemas about the self and others to voice phenomenology: anxiety and depression affect voice hearers differently. Psychology and Psychotherapy, 95 (2), 493-507. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12384
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  • Böge, K., Thomas, N., & Jacobsen, P. (2021). Is mindfulness for psychosis harmful? Deconstructing a myth. British Journal of Psychiatry, 218, 71-72. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.165  
  • Böge, K., Hahne, I., Bergmann, N., Wingenfeld, K., Zierhut, M., Thomas, N., Ta, T. M. T., Bajbouj, M., & Hahn, E. (2021). Mindfulness-based group therapy for in-patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes of a rater-blinded randomized controlled trial. Schizophrenia Research, 228, 134-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2020.12.008
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  • Louise, S., Rossell, S. L., Toh, W. L., Scott, M., & Thomas, N. (2018). Does mindfulness help people adapt to the experience of hearing voices? Psychiatry Research, 270, 329-334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.09.013 
  • Strauss, C., Hugdahl, K., Waters, F., Hayward, M., Bless, J. J., Falkenberg, L. E., … Thomas, N. (2018). The Beliefs About Voices Questionnaire—Revised: A factor structure from 450 participants. Psychiatry Research, 259, 95-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2017.09.089 
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  • Brand, R., Rossell, S. L., Bendall, S., & Thomas, N. (2017). Can we use an interventionist-causal paradigm to untangle the relationship between trauma, PTSD and psychosis? Frontiers in Psychology, 8, e306. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00306 
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  • McLeod, H. J., Thomas, N., Rossell, S. L., & Gumley, A. (2016). Emotional processes in understanding and treating psychosis. In R. Menzies, M. Kyrios, & N. Kazantzis (Eds.), Innovations and future directions in the behavioural and cognitive therapies. Stamford Valley, Australia: Australian Academic Press. ISBN: 978-1-922-11770-0 (paperback). 
  • Rossell, S. L., Thomas, N., & Waters, F. (2016). Advancing our understanding of hallucinations. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 42, 1096-1097. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbw089 
  • Thomas, N., Farhall, J., Foley, F., Leitan, N., Villagonzalo, K. A., Ladd, E., ... Kyrios, M. (2016). Promoting personal recovery in people with persisting psychotic disorders: Development and pilot study of a novel digital intervention. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 7, e196 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00196 
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