This study was designed to ascertain the associations between public and private self-focused attention and individuals’ relationships with their voices (auditory verbal hallucinations). A sample of 60 subjects with psychiatric disorders who heard voices were given a series of scales to measure their relationship with their voices, self-focused attention, depression and anxiety. A significant association was found between the relational style (dominance, intrusiveness and distance of voices) on one hand and private and public self-focused attention on the other. Voice dominance predicts the scores on the private and public self-focused attention scales. Finally, public self-focused attention mediated the relationship between voice dominance and anxiety. The theoretical and clinical implications of the results are discussed.