Intervoice is committed to encouraging research into voice-hearing that people who hear voices, and their supporters, can truly benefit from. In this section, we will include the latest news from our International Research Committee, alongside a bibliography covering research into a wide range of aspects of the experience.
We will be developing this section in the coming months. If you know of any research that should be included here, please let us know. Additionally, if you would like to contact the Research Committee please email us or leave a comment of the Research Committee’s page.
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i would really appreciate being given some figure of just how common haring voices is for the people in the UK. thank you i found this website extremelly useful and powerful.
I was very enthused aswell as relieved to find an organisation which has your beliefs reguarding hearing voices and the outdated, retarded and disgusting practices and ideals of the psychiatic field i get treatment from in canada with their medication and complete ignorance and virtual non treatment of their practices. From what i read on wikipaedia you offer a more realistic and hollistic approach rather than stigmatising and mediacating the patient without actually ever inquiring about who,what .. the voices are and what they mean to you. I was hoping to contact someone by telephone aswell as inquiring about your organisation here in Canada, if you can contact me with some contact information i would be very pleaed. In conclusion i would like to thank you and congradulate you for what seems to be a better mre human and realistic and positive form of treatment.
I totally agree Massimo, the narrow, ignorant and archaic practices of the psychiatric establishment seem to do more harm than good.
I work in Mental Health in New Zealand, and have been disgusted to see numerous voice-hearers let down by services and “treatments” that are completely ineffective for this experience, and yet are justified via compulsory treatment laws.
It appears more and more common here to have people labelled “treatment resistant” or “medication resistant” which to me is only a cop-out, and really means that clinicians are out of their depth when dealing with this phenomena. Hearing voices is still left in the “schizophrenia” basket regardless of the overall experience the person has, and when medication is ineffective, which seems quite often, the “system” has no idea what to do.
I’m with you; self-education, holistic healing and devising coping strategies worked for me, as hearing voices had always been there anyway and had significance in my life. I didn’t actually want them medicated out of existence, merely to understand them and deal with the underlying issues to move on.
I hear constant chattering voices all the time. this started about 7 years ago just before my 50th birthday.
I find it very disturbing and night time is definately the worse time because they dont stop until I’m exhausted and fall asleep.
Hi people,
I am interested in the research of the urban environment and the impact it can have on hearing voices. Any suggestions for further reading??
GOOGLE SEARCH SYNTHETIC TELEAPATHY OR VOICE TO SKULL TECHNOLGY WHAT IS THE DIFFERANCE BETWEEN REAL SCHIZOPHREINA AND BEING TARGETED WITH A VOICE TO SKULL DEVICE THERE IS ALL KINDS OF PAGES THAT TELL YOU HOW THE VOICES GET IN BUT NO INFO HOW TO GET THEM OUT WHEN DONE WITH THIS KIND OF TECHNOLGY IN THIS CASE IS THERE AWAY TO BLOCK THE SOUND WAVES THEY USE TO GIVE YOU THE VOICES??
I am a target of SYNTHETIC TELEAPATHY OR VOICE TO SKULL TECHNOLGY are there any counter measures?
About 4% of the population according to demographic research – see research bibliography
Is there any hope that those involuntary movements will stop after quitting the drug – in this case haldol? What does the research say and/or where can I find it?
I’m interested to know how the voices identify themselves when asked and the details they give when identity information is sought from them. I’m interested in knowing the general findings of the field in this respect.
If you can send me some references covering this topic it would be most appreciated.
Many thanks
The voices sound like people I know, or have met at some time. When I ask who they are, I get scarred, and there is just silence. Then I hear someone I have met say something terrible about me again. I imagine a shapeshifter. One person, like a old indian witch doctor, who is always hearing my thoughts and memories, recording the ones he likes to use when demeaning. Then the shapes he changes into are the people who would mostly be affected by what they said, if they actually said it. This is weird, because I am such a nice guy, they could say it to my face if they wanted to. I would not lash out at them in any way. a lot of it is just lowlife comments and threats.
exactly, this is exactly how I experienced it. Like he takes things I say and uses them to mock me just like how you described. And I know!!, , The whole time ( 2 years or so now) I just wanted him to come out and say it to my face or at least talk to me in person. At times it was felt tremendously awful, like an anti-communication – which to me was the worst thing to experience. I have always been introverted but extremely social.
They always tell me that they’re me… Or the only one I asked said that. He’s quite logical, and told me that he’s a coping mechanism for me and he protects me. But is still me.
This is a way they work with you. It is so that you may gain your own individual “emotional security”! That has been my personal experience with my voices. Best wishes and Peace Within, Kate!
We are a start-up Community Based Organization in Kenya known as NORMAL DIFFERENCE..The only organization in Kenya dealing with people hearing voices. We’d like to get more information about these people.So far we have managed to scout and recruit twenty four people with hearing voices. HOW CAN WE WORK TOGETHER.
PLEASE HELP US TO HELP HUMANITY.
its good to look at history and different cultures and how they explain life and how we experience life, muslums cultures call us listeners and is not frowned upon especially in the earlier civilisations, its an interesting fact that when we are in namaaz the pray, we lift our hands to our ears to signafy we are listening, interesting!
Dear Intervoice,
We are a research team at the University of Surrey in the UK with a passion for clinical work and research with people who hear voices. We are aware of the substantial support that organisations such as Intervoice provide to their members and the wider community. We had the pleasure of contact with Rachel Waddingham this Summer who kindly offered to support us to raise awareness of our research in the UK. We are hoping that the research can help with psychological therapies for people who hear voices in the future.
We have an online questionnaire which charities in the UK such as MIND, the Mental Health Foundation and the Hearing Voices Network have distributed to their members. It takes 20-25 minutes and participants can enter into a prize draw to win up to $75 US. Our aim is to have 140 English-speaking participants through the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand before the end of 2011. We are encouraging charties to send information about our study through email distribution lists, links on websites, newsletters, online forums, Facebook and Twitter. The research has ethical approval from the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences at the University of Surrey. If you would like further information, please emaill us at e.clarke@surrey.ac.uk and we can send you further information and the link to our website.
Kind regards,
Esther Clarke
Trainee Clinical Psychologist
University of Surrey
Psychology Block AD
Guildford, Surrey
GU2 7XH
We have just published a book on the subject of psychic phenomenon such as hearing voices and seeing spirits; Divinely Touched: Transform Your Life;
that explains where these voices come from and what one can do about it (without drugs!).
Dr. Dave DiSano
All I know is dont play with Ouija boards.Thats how mine started back in 1999.Others have experienced the same problem.Hearing voices is also sometimes called “The art of discernment.”
I think suffers of schizophrenia have a strong claim to include a “duty to warn” patients and others that “immediate talking” voices are other people engaged in hostage taking (threatening), and “remote listening” audience is non other than people engaged in kidnapping, (stalking), for purposes that effect criminal control and unlawful death of legal authority and democratic power. I take it seriously, because so far to date, the measuring of communication has demonstrated that criminal intentions and motivations have out performed lawful intentions and non-criminal motivations, in the audience of sz. and in the world, and it has been impossible to gather any witness testimony beyond the schizophrenic person, that “voices” appear to be other people, living within Anne Frank like settings, much due to the protection of causation built into the channel as well as the intention to deceive, or criminally corrupt. However, if the police or the medical community were to gather or assemble evidence of sharing mind with other people, it could be used to improve the emotional and physical care of those suffering from the condition, particularly those victims who remain free of criminal power and suffer from nothing other than emotive techncial sound domination.
Sometimes getting rid of Spirit books and materials will help.. I mean if your reading books about wizards and demons or practicing such things.. what can you expect..? and Sometimes doing Drugs can allow for people to hear Voices and See Visions.. Hope this helps.
Dearest Earnest: Who were you hoping to help? What can anyone expect? How about a little more understanding? What about those who have never read spirit books or have taken drugs…or that the only reason they take legal drugs is to quiet the voices who are destructive? Just because it isn’t tangible doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist or that it Isn’t real or that it is a figment of imagination.
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I first broke down and experienced “nightmares” I call them at the age of 19. I was alone and wasnt wanted back home but was helped out by family and put into a halfway home.
I watched an english documentary called “Madness” about 8 years ago. Apparantly the medication they first used to treat people with schzephrenia, was some hormone, if Im correct from people who suffer from epilepsy or at least some dirivative of the illness. Now this brings to mind to me about epilepsy as I had a sister who had epilepsy. And I wonder if the key to the antidote has to do with anger and aggression. My sister did have a bad temper when she was younger. Anger, how does that relate to a schzephrenic state. Interesting that someone mentioned a higher self, could be. Or is schzephrenia bought on by the lack of oxygen to the brain from overuse of drinking and drugs and/or lack of water. Or chronic abusive experiences of events bringing on trauma resulting in brain damage. Are the voices logic gone wrong or are they ghosts?
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I find that because I am on the lowest dose that I do not have tremens