Hearing the Voice at Cognitive Futures of the Humanities
Peter Garratt, lead researcher of the Cognitive Futures in the Humanities AHRC Network, writes: I am grateful to Angela Woods, Pat Waugh, Hilary Powell and Marco Bernini for representing Hearing the...
View ArticlePost-ICOSR II: Limitatations of the current phenomenology of psychosis
Reblogged from Ruminations on Madness: At ICOSR I was delighted by multiple opportunities to converse with active neuroscientists; a general lack of attention to the nuances and complications of...
View ArticleWhy is there limited effectiveness for CBT for AVH? And how can we enhance...
“Why is there limited effectiveness for CBT for AVH?And how can we enhance treatment?” Guy Dodgson, Consultant Clinical Psychologist (EIP), Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, offers...
View Article‘Our Inner Voices’ by Daniel Lende
“A pastiche of a post, putting together ideas and research on inner voices: -How to document the conversations we carry on with ourselves most everyday (in the West at least) -The importance of inner...
View ArticleSusanne Ådahl on Voice-Hearing Research in Finland
Susanne Ådahl is a visiting fellow with Hearing the Voice from 9 – 20 September 2013. She writes: Research on voice hearing is being conducted in Finland through an interdisciplinary project called...
View ArticleCharles Fernyhough & Eleanor Longden: ‘It’s time to listen to the voices in...
Hearing voices in your head when there’s no one around… that’s a sign of madness, right? In the popular imagination voice-hearing is often viewed with fear and suspicion, frequently reified as a...
View ArticleDo Deaf People Hear an Inner Voice?
In his blog ‘The Voices Within’ for Psychology Today, Charles Fernyhough writes: ‘An interesting thread on Quora.com (registration required) asks ‘Does someone who was born with a hearing loss “hear”...
View Article‘Walking into the Unknown’
Grace Fforde, Alex Luck, Henry Johnstone and Karina Ferdi (BA Geography Undergraduate students, Durham University) write: As undergraduate students studying human geography, we could not have...
View Article‘Delirium: images, sounds and voices in intensive care’ by Victoria J. Hume
‘Delirium’ is an hour-long song-cycle by Victoria Hume which explores delirious experiences in intensive treatment areas, and is based on interviews with people who have personal experience of...
View ArticleVoiceWalks at the Shuffle Festival: Part 2
Roz Oates, a doctoral student in Durham’s Centre for Medical Humanities and Department of Geography, who is also part of the Hearing the Voice research team, continues our ‘two-post special’ on...
View Article‘Talking to the Voices in Our Heads’ by Sam Wilkinson and Felicity Dreamer
In a recent piece for the Guardian’s Inner Voices series, Dr Sam Wilkinson (Postdoctoral Research Associate in Philosophy, Hearing the Voice) and Dr Felicity Dreamer (Postdoctoral Research Associate on...
View ArticleMoccasin Bend: a place based autoethnography of psychosis
Timothy Kelly is a U.S. based doctoral student at The University of Iowa and creator of the Moccasin Bend project. He writes: In 1997 I was an involuntary patient in Moccasin Bend Mental Health...
View ArticlePsychosis Stories: A call for participants
Readers of this blog may be interested in participating in a research project at the University of Leeds exploring stories of psychosis as representations of a phenomenal state. For more information...
View Article‘Personal Reflections on Voices, Visions & Other Extraordinary Experiences:...
Dr Gary Sidley is a freelance writer and trainer who, in 2013, opted for early retirement from his post of Professional Lead/Consultant Clinical Psychologist after 33 continuous years of employment in...
View ArticleCall for Participants: Hearing Voices and the Experience of Self
Alice Webster, a doctoral researcher at Teesside University, writes: “I am carrying out research into the concept of ‘self’ and am interested to find out what this means to people who hear voices. If...
View ArticleCall for Participants: Young People Hearing Voices
Hannah Ryan, a researcher at the Anna Freud Centre writes: Are you a young person (under 25) who hears voices? Would you like to contribute to our understanding of the experience voice hearing for...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Stanford VOICES “Work & School Stories” Project
Dr Nev Jones, postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and HtV advisory board member, writes: Years and years ago, when I was first diagnosed with “schizophrenia,” as a first year philosophy...
View Article‘In the Real: A Review’ by Lois Arkley, Trainee Clinical Psychologist,...
Lois Arkeley is a Trainee Clinical Psychologist at Teesside University. She writes: Earlier this month I attended the UK launch of In the Real by Conor McCormack at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle...
View ArticleCall for Participants: Cultural Understandings of Voice-hearing
Stephanie Minchin, a final year Trainee Clinical Psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, writes: I am a final year Trainee Clinical Psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire with an...
View ArticleMad Studies North-East Community Course, Durham, Summer 2016
A core group of North East mad study forum members have been working on a Mad Studies community course which we will deliver July-August this year at Waddington Street in Durham City Centre. We have 10...
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