World Hearing Voices Day ‘Healing Voices’ Screenings: An invitation
We’ve been contacted by the producers of ‘Healing Voices‘, a documentary that explores experiences commonly labelled as ‘psychosis’ and ‘mental illness’ through the real-life stories of individuals working to overcome […]
2015 World Hearing Voices Congress Announced – Spain
Please note: this page is out-dated. See the new Congress Page for more recent information. We are delighted to share the details of our 2015 World Hearing Voices Congress, hosted […]
2014 World Hearing Voices Congress Announced – Greece
We’re excited to announce details of the upcoming World Hearing Voices Congress in Greece, from 10-12 October. To keep updated with developments, please bookmark the congress website: www.symvoli.gr/conference/hearingvoices/en/ (English Language) […]
World Hearing Voices Congress 2013 – Early Bird Rate Ends 31 July
Hearing Voices – Journeys to Understanding Working together to build our understanding about hearing voices and new ways of thinking about recovery.For voice hearers, consumers, service users, clinicians, community workers, carers and […]
Open Dialogue Approach
An Alternative Finnish Approach to Healing Psychosis In the 1980s, the psychiatric services in Finland were struggling to support people who were diagnosed with ‘schizophrenia’. 25 years later, their published […]
Talking With Voices 1-4 October (UK)
Working to Recovery presents: Talking With Voices: An Exploration of Voice Dialogues Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire – 1st to 4th October 2012 Many people who hear challenging voices have found that […]
Psychosis Seminars: The Trialogical Approach
Psychosis Seminars were “invented” in Hamburg (Germany) by Dorothea Buck, a psychiatric survivor of the German Nazi regime, and Thomas Bock, a psychologist lecturing at the Hamburg university. They are […]
Rufus May – The doctor who hears voices (subtitulado)
Rufus May recently posted a link to a Spanish sub-titled version of ‘The Doctor Who Hears Voices’ on Youtube. Talking about the documentary, he says: Some Spanish friends have put […]
Book Now: 2012 World Hearing Voices Congress
Working to Recovery, Asylum Associates, Hearing Voices Network Cymru in conjunction with Intervoice Presents: The Hearing Voices Network 25 Years On Learning from the Past, Practising in the Present, Visioning […]
Being Positive About Voices
INTERVOICE has always considered the importance of accepting peoples’ own explanations for their voice experiences as paramount. Many people believe their voices to have spiritual or other significance. In this […]
Lessons on Voices from St John of the Cross
Today we live in a world where the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions are very often viewed by psychiatry through a biological/medical lens. This approach encourages psychiatry to […]
The Mad Doctor
The extraordinary story of Dr Rufus May Published: Independent, 18 March 2007 At the age of 18, Rufus May was diagnosed as an incurable schizophrenic and locked up in a […]
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