Making Sense of Voices: An overview of the research carried out by Marius Romme and Sandra Escher
In this article Marius Romme and Sandra Escher provide and introduction to "Making Sense of Voices", a method to explore the problems in the life of the voice hearer that lie at the roots of the hearing voices experience.

Working with voices!! Victim to victor: Evaluation of a Mentored Self-Help Intervention for the Management of Psychotic Symptoms
Results show statistically significant improvement in the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) factor Anxious Depression for Intervention group participants, over those in the Comparison group.

Hearing voices: Explanations and implications, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (2004)
Far from always signifying a mental illness, voice hearing may result from other causes, including drug side effects, brain lesions, and culturally-sanctioned phenomena. Accordingly, a wide range of assessment, intervention, and self-management strategies are available and appropriate.

Hearing voices and schizophrenia
A cause related alternative for the concept of schizophrenia.

Voice Hearing - A questionnaire
This questionnaire was originally designed as a research tool to elicit information from people who hear voices.

Children hearing voices study 1996 - 2001: Guardian articles
Articles concerning the four-year study of 80 children aged between eight and 18 by Sandra Escher and researchers at Maastricht University in Holland.

Request from researcher: Help us normalise voices!
Research intended to explore features of both positive and negative experiences of hearing voices, that might make it possible to use this knowledge to help people who are finding it difficult to cope better.

Hearing voices: A phenomenological-hermeneutic approach
A philisophical consideration of the implications of hearing voices.

Hearing Voices/Hallucinations Research: 19th Century
For those people who are interested in researching into the history of hallucinatory experiences, here are two books from the 1890s.

Is hearing voices a sign of mental illness? - A debate
Two psychologists debate the issue.

Bereavement and hearing voices
Two research studies looking into the the experience of widowed people.

Hallucinations in the sane
An hallucination may occur to a normal person in state of good mental and physical health, even in the apparent absence of a transient trigger factor such as fatigue, intoxication or sensory deprivation.

What voices can do with words
This paper considers verbal hallucinations as inner speech with pragmatics. The specific pragmatic properties of verbal hallucinations investigated included the number of voices, the characteristics that individuate the voices, the sequential characteristics of the dialogues between voice hearers and their voices, the dialogical positioning of voices hearers, voices and other individuals, and how the voices influence voice hearers' activities.

Hearing voices: Explanations and implications
Study concludes that by offering a diversity of treatment options, eliciting patients’ causal theories, and incorporating these into an individualized treatment strategy, clinicians are likely to help clients control the distressing aspects of the voices, minimize stigma and discrimination, and make meaning of the experience.