There has been a wealth of research on the area of hearing voices – much of it treating people who hear voices as objects or raw data, rather than valuing them as knowers in their own right. Yet, despite this important caveat, research has and continues to be a part of the Hearing Voices Movement. It is Sandra Escher and Marius Romme’s initial research that helped spark the movement’s development. Rather than provide a comprehensive summary of research related to voice-hearing and vision-seeing, this section pulls out a selection that may be of interest to you.
The Experience
Woods, A., Jones, N., Alderson-Day, B., Callard, F. & Fernyhough, C. (2015) Experiences of hearing voices: analysis of a novel phenomenological survey. The Lancet Psychiatry
Jones, N., & Luhrmann, T. M. (2016). Beyond the sensory: Findings from an in-depth analysis of the phenomenology of “auditory hallucinations” in schizophrenia. Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.
Hearing Voices Groups
Oakland, L. & Berry, K. (2014) “Lifting the Veil”: a qualitative analysis of experiences in Hearing Voices Network groups. Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.
Jones, N., Marino, C. K. & Hansen, M. C (2016) The Hearing Voices Movement in the United States: Findings from a national survey of group facilitators. Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.
Beavan, V. de Jager, A., & dos Santos, B. (2016) Do peer-support groups for voice-hearers work? Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.
Payne, T., Allen, J., & Lavender, T. (2017) Hearing Voices Network Groups: experiences of eight voice hearers and the connection to group processes and recovery. Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.
Longden, E., Read, J. & Dillon, J. (2018) Assessing the Impact and Effectiveness of Hearing Voices Network Self-Help Groups. Community Mental Health
Maastricht Approach
Romme, M.A.J., Escher, A.D.M.A.C. (1989) Hearing Voices. Schizophrenia Bulletin.
Romme M.A.J., Honig A., Noorthoorn O., Escher A.D.M.A.C. (1992) Coping with voices: an emancipatory approach. British Journal of Psychiatry.
Escher, A., Romme, M., Buiks, A., Delespaul, Ph., Van Os, J. (2002) Independent course of childhood auditory hallucinations: a sequential 3-year follow-up study. British Journal of Psychiatry.
Corstens D & Longden E (2013) The Origins of Voices: Links Between Life History and Voice Hearing in a Survey of 100 Cases. Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.
Steel, C., Schnackenberg, J., Perry, H., Longden, E., Greenfield, E. & Corstens, D. (2019) Making Sense of Voices: a case series. Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.
Steel, C., Schnackenberg, J., Travers, Z., Longden, E., Greenfield, E., Meredith, L., Perry, H. & Corstens, D. (2020) Voice hearers’ experiences of the Making Sense of Voices approach in an NHS setting. Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.
Talking With Voices
Corstens, D., Longden, E., & May, R. (2012). Talking with voices: exploring what is expressed by the voices people hear. Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.
Longden, E., Corstens, D., Morrison, A.P., Larkin, A., Murphy, E., Holden, N., Steele, A., Branitsky, A., & Bowe, S. (2021). A treatment protocol to guide the delivery of dialogical engagement with auditory hallucinations: Experience from the Talking With Voices pilot trial. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.