The INTERVOICE Network: Information on national initiatives
If you hear voices (aka auditory hallucinations); if you know someone who does; if you work with people who hear voices; if you want to know about more about this experience. Then this site is for you.
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who hear voices, family members, friends, mental health workers, activists, and concerned citizens.
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* Studies have found that between four and 10 per cent of people across the world hear voices.
* Between 70 and 90 cent of people who hear voices do so following traumatic events.
* Voices can be male, female, without gender, child, adult, human or non-human.
* People may hear one voice or many. Some people report hearing hundreds, although in almost all reported cases, one dominates above the others.
* Voices can be experienced in the head, in the ears, outside the head, in some other part of the body, or in the environment.
* Voices often reflect important aspects of the hearer's emotional state - emotions that are often unexpressed by the hearer.
INTERVOICE members Marius Romme & Sandra Escher and Rufus May up for prestigious award!
INTERVOICE founder members Sandra Escher and Marius Romme have been jointly nominated for this year's Mind Champion award.
In a separate nomination, INTERVOICE member Rufus May is also up for the award.
The Mind Champion award honours the person or people who have made the most important contribution in challenging discrimination against people with mental health problems during the past year.
Past winners have included Stephen Fry, Frank Bruno, The Archers and Peter Campbell.
The winner will be presented with the award by Melvyn Bragg at the 2008 Mind Awards lunch on the 15th May.
The Doctor Who Hears Voices
21st April 2008, "The Doctor Who Hears Voices" , Shown on Channel Four, UK, 10.00pm,
Drama documentary, featuring our very own Rufus May and actress Ruth Wilson
Dr Rufus May is a psychologist. "Last week Ruth Fielding came to see him for the first time. Ruth’s a junior doctor who’s hearing a voice telling her to kill herself. Most doctors would say Ruth is a danger to herself and others, and have her sectioned. Rufus is different. He doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with hearing voices.
Read our PRESS RELEASE here
Visit the New Rufus May Website
Read what Rufus has to say about "Underground recovery" in this exclusive article from Psychminded
Read what Phil Thomas (psychiatrist and INTERVOICE member) has to say in "Listen to the Wounded Healers" British Medical Journal
Press Release from Mind, a leading mental health charity:. "Mind praises groundbreaking documentary opening eyes and ears to hearing voices", read it here
Reviews in the The Mirror, The Independent, The Times and The Guardian
More reviews here
and more information here
Read this useful article by Dirk Corstens, Eleanor Longden and Rufus May
about the methods used by Rufus May in "The Doctor who Hears Voices"
"Many people who hear challenging voices have found that a turning point in learning to cope with this experience has been finding different ways of talking with and understanding their voices. Learning to understand the motives of your voices and different ways of talking with them can help the relationship to change between the voice hearer and the voices...."
Also
We talked about the voices ... Eleanor Longden, a voice hearer, describes her experience of talking to her voices in the UK mass circulation newspaper The Daily Mail, 07/02/2008
I discovered that if I engaged with the voices, they became less frequent. I also learnt to challenge the more threatening voice, refusing to do what it told me and telling myself it was no more than a symbol of my own externalised anger. .. One by one the voices gradually disappeared, until I was only occasionally hearing one... Three years on, I am healthy, happy and perfectly stable.
Talking to Voices DVD: Professor Marius Romme
See Marius Romme explaining the theoretical basis for voice dialoguing, then with the help of a voice hearer demonstrates the voice dialoguing technique. buy your own copy here
Working with and Talking to Voices
New 4 day residential course featuring Dirk Corstens & Eleanor Longden (see Daily Mail aritcle above) and the voice dialogue methods used by Rufus May in the drama-documentary "The Doctor Who Hears Voices".
Dates confirmed for 22nd September to 25th September 2008
To download the programme for the course click here
If you wish to to ensure a place on this popular course you can reserve one now, please contact Working To Recovery
Our new anthem
"Voices" by Mary Maddocks
listen to it here
This song was especially written by Mary to acknowledge and celebrate the experience of people who hear voices.
read the lyrics here
*NEW*
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Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry
Contributing writers include INTERVOICE members: Sandra Escher, Maths Jesperson, Hannelore Klafki, Rufus May, Marius Romme, Philip Thomas
Read a review of the book by Karl Koehler, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Bonn here
Order your copy now!
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was held on Friday 14th September 2007
Our international awareness day intends to combat the secrecy and stigma surrounding hearing voices. Read our press release here
Find out what happened here
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Am I Normal?: Programme description
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