Monika Hoffmann
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Monika Hoffmann is a psychologist and is one of the co-founders of the "NeSt", the German Hearing Voices Network and still one of its most active members.
"Whenever I am working with people who hear voices today, I understand my professional role no longer as someone who has to put all her energies in suppressing voices at all costs but rather as someone who assists voice hearers in becoming mistress or master in their own homes again. While they are learning to do this, I feel very often helpless and stupid. Most likely this is only a shadow of what the voice hearer is going through at the same time." Monika Hoffmann
Click on the link to read the paper that Monika Hoffmann presented at the Hearing Voices Conference "Hearing Voices in Transition", that took place in Berlin in December,1999. In this paper, she tells her personal story of how she started to question the traditional psychiatric perception of "auditory hallucinations" and what her points of views are today.
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