’Talking To Voices’ (An Exploration of Voice Dialogues): Dundee: 18th/19th April 2007
’Talking To Voices’ (An Exploration of Voice Dialogues): A Two Day Workshop
Dundee: 18th/19th April 2007
With Dr Dirk Corstens & Dr Rufus May
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Talking with voices
Many people who hear challenging voices have found that a turning point in coping with the experience is finding different ways of talking with and understanding them. Exploring the voice’s motives and discovering different ways of relating to them can help change the relationship between the voice-hearer and their voices.
Why is Speaking With Voices Helpful?
1. This method does not focus on voices as a symptom of “illness”: nor does it concentrate on
discovering what is “wrong” with the person.
2. It offers a neutral but strong attitude to work with voices - acceptance is the core of the
technique.
3. It offers a positive model for the existence of voices.
4. It helps develop increased awareness, objectivity and a more productive relationship between
voices and voice-hearer.
5. By definition, voice-hearing is very lonely experience. Allowing others to “hear” the voices is
empowering, liberating and a source of considerable support. In turn, it also affords
professionals, friends and family some valuable insight into the reality of a person’s voice-hearing
experience.
Basic Principles
The most essential principle is that we are not necessarily trying to change the voices, nor banish them from the person’s life. What we are trying to do is explore their relationship with the voice-hearer. Doing this work will help the individual gain a different perspective on what the voices are trying to say: and if the person can develop a stronger attitude then the voices are able to change. Our aim is not to get rid of the voices, but to make their relationship with the voice-hearer more equal through helping the person take back control.
During the two days participants will cover the following topics:
Who should attend?
People whom would benefit from these workshops are primarily front line staff; Nurses,
Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Support Workers, and Social Workers.
Participants will have the opportunity to study and practice the voice dialoguing method, and
explore various ways of understanding and relating to the voice hearers experiences.
Comments
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i WORK WITH PERSONS SUFFERING FROM A.R.B.D AND ALSO MY WIFE, WHO HAS M.E, WHO EXPERIENCE INTERNAL VOICES. I NEED TO GAIN KNOWLEDGE, AS TO HOW ONE DEALS WITH THIS ILLNESS AND ENHANCES THE PERSONS LIFE.
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my wife is an alcoholic , but weather she is sober or drunk, she does this she picks up the phone at the house and dials a number calling whom ever it does not matter, when she places the phone to her ear(old style type) she talks to her self in a whispery spooky vioce, it can be about demonds, it can be about alcohol , and most of all it can be as she is talking to someone else about sexuall experiences or telling them things, but no one is there , just the phone ringing waiting for who ever she calls to answer, or if she is placed on hold she will do the same thing, its like a self hypnosis or somehting, as long as she has the phone to her ear she does this, as soon as the party she calls asnswers she speaks in her normal voice, and what she was saying in her whipsey voice has nothing to do with whom she called or anyhting they talk about, its scary for me to hear, i only bugged the phones at the house after she had an affair on me , she has been a alcoholic for 30 years, about a 6 pk of beer a day