Interview Simulator

“What would you ask next?” — practise phenomenological interviewing where every question has a consequence: information gained or lost, rapport, and whether the account stays reliable.

Fictional training scenario. A deterministic, authored teaching exercise — not a real patient and not a diagnostic tool. The aim is to establish the phenomenology cleanly, not to pick a “right answer”.

• “I keep hearing things” — characterising a possible auditory hallucination

  Focus: auditory-hallucination

  Axes to establish: modality · location · reality · content · insight

• “Nothing feels real” — separating depersonalization from derealization

  Focus: depersonalisation

  Axes to establish: quality · locus · insight · onset

• “Thoughts that aren’t mine” — clarifying a possible passivity experience

  Focus: thought-insertion

  Axes to establish: ownership · agency · source · control · conviction