Open Letter to Rethink: Let’s Rethink the Schizophrenia Diagnosis
The following is an Open Letter prepared by Paul Baker. The Intervoice Board has voted to sign this as an organisation. If you would like to add your name to […]
HVN England Release Position Statement on DSM 5
It’s the Bad Things that Happen to you that can Drive you Crazy! The Hearing Voices Network in England has issued a position statement on DSM 5 and the wide […]
Inquiry into the ‘Schizophrenia’ Label: Initial Report
ISL Releases Preliminary findings The following report is taken from the Inquiry into the ‘Schizophrenia’ Label’s website. Please see: www.schizophreniainquiry.org for more information. Preliminary findings show that over 80% of […]
DVDs, Films & Documentaries
Hearing Voices Movement Documentaries Voices Matter Open Paradigm Project “Voices Matter” is a documentary about the global Hearing Voices Movement, filmed at the 2012 World Hearing Voices Congress in Cardiff, […]
Request for Speakers – Asylum Conference 2011
World Hearing Voices Day Event September 14-15, Manchester, England Asylum Collective and their friends and supporters in the Critical Psychiatry Network and Psychology Politics Resistance will be meeting to discuss […]
Aiden Shingler
Aiden is an artist and is also diagnosed as a schizophrenic. He calls himself a schizophrenic artist, one of his pieces of work made up of four crucifixes stamped in […]
Hearing Voices Amongst ‘Normal’ People
Introduction To hear a voice that has no apparent physical cause is usually regarded by psychiatry as an auditory hallucination, a sign of a mental illness. It is most often […]
Redefining Hearing Voices
Hearing voices in itself is not a symptom of an illness Hearing Voices is apparent in 2 – 4 % of the population. One in three becomes a psychiatric patient […]
Hearing Voices & Schizophrenia
A cause related alternative for the harmful concept of schizophrenia The issues: Outside of psychiatry it is not well known that schizophrenia has yet to be shown to be a […]
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 […]
Pete Bullimore
The Recovery Position This is an extract of Peters story is taken from an article by Adam James, published on the Psychminded website. To see the full article click here. […]
Eleanor Longden
How I tamed the voices in my head When Eleanor Longden began hearing things, she soon found herself drugged, sectioned and labelled schizophrenic. Then a psychiatrist taught her how to […]
I Learned to Live with Voices
Brian: I learned to live with voices Source: BBC Online, 18/09/2006 Brian, 38 and from Manchester, hears voices in his head. Sometimes they tell him that he is dirty. At […]
I can’t have schizophrenia – I’m a psychology student!
Things clearly weren’t right so I went to the university counselling service and told them I was hearing voices and couldn’t keep up with my work Emma Harding, from Tooting, […]
Essential Facts
Did You Know Studies have found that between four and 10 per cent of people across the world hear voices. Between 70 and 90 cent of people who hear voices […]
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