I know a few people that tell me they experience "voices", but not necessarily hostile ones. The common mechanism they use to organize their thoughts is to assign a name to the voice (or multiple voices) and possibly an appearance to it. I believe it's referred to as a plural system? I honestly don't know what to make of any of it since it's so unlike anything I've personally experienced. They seem to not be self-destructive, though, so whatever they're doing must be effective for themselves. I can't imagine that the mechanism behind it is too different than the one responsible for psychosis, so it makes sense that a similar approach would be effective.