As a follow-up to the July Hearing Voices community Forum the Leadership hosted a workshop on Friday November 12th aimed for people who hear voices, their supporters, mental health workers and managers. We were joined by Intervoice members Paul Baker and Ron Coleman. The day was a great success and thanks to all who came.

For anyone who is interested in starting, attending, and or generally being involved in starting hearing voices groups here in Toronto, please join the follow up meeting.

Meeting for those interested in being involved in hearing voices groups in Toronto: Wednesday November 24th from 1-3pm at 336 Adelaide Street East Suite 241

Hearing Voices Movement Resource List

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Intervoice: An informative website with information on the voice hearing experience. A great resource for those who hear voices and those who work/support voice hearers.

CAMH Article: Voice hearers’ groups inspire new ways to listen.

The Icarus Project. An informative and alternative website that sees so called “mental illness” as Mad Gifts.

The Hearing Voices Network. An up to date and comprehensive website that discusses the voice hearing experience

Working To Recovery: A website dedicated to the normalization and understanding of the voice hearing experience.
Mental Health Forum and Forum on Hearing Voices. A Place to network, share and gain insight into the voice hearing experience.

Rufus May: A recovery based website on the voice hearing experience.

A great radio program on the voice hearing experience.
http://www.hearingvoices.org.uk/about_hearingvoices.htm Information on the voice hearing experience, voice hearing groups and recovery.

Will Hall A mental diversity counselor, consultant, and writer based in Portland Oregon, who hears voices and works with several organizations doing recovery based work.

Publications

A Personal Essay on the voice hearing experience.
Babylon, B. Hearing Voices.

(For purchase) The power and omnipotence of voices: subordination and entrapment by voices and significant others. Psychological Medicine. Vol 30 (2), 337-344 Birchwood, M. Meaden, A. Trower, P. Gilbert, P. Plaistow, G (2000):

(For purchase) Choices for voices: A voice hearer’s perspective on hearing voices, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Volume 9, (Issue 1 & 2 February). Cockshutt, G. (2004), pages 9 – 11

May, Rufus. Accepting Alternative Realities.

Mad Medicine
A New Group for People Who Hear Voices Celebrates Mental Illness Diversity by Marjorie Skinner.

Voices Options: Coping with intrusive thoughts, impulses, voices etc, Ron Unger

Publications

Publications/articles by Professor Marius Romme and Sandra Escher et al:

Romme, M.A.J. & Escher, A.D.M.A.C.: Hearing Voices (1989) Schizophrenia Bulletin 15 (2): 209 – 216

Romme, M.A.J. & Escher, A.D.M.A.C. (1989). Effects of mutual contacts from people with auditory hallucinations. Perspectief no 3, 37-43, July 1989

Romme, M.A.J. & Escher, A.D.M.A.C. (1990). Heard but not seen. Open Mind No 49, 16-18,

Romme, M.A.J. & Escher, A.D.M.A.C. (1991). Sense in voices. Open Mind 53, The mental health magazine, 9 November

Romme, M.A.J. & Escher, A.D.M.A.C. (1991).Undire le Voci. Spazi della Menten nr. 8, December 1991 p 3-9

Romme, M.A.J., Honig, A., Noorthoorn, O., Escher, A.D.M.A.C. (1991) Coping with voices: an emancipatory approach. British Journal of psychiatry 161, 99-103

M. Romme, A. Honig, E. O. Noorthorn & S. Escher: Coping with hearing voices: an emanciapatory approach (1992) British Journal of Psychiatry

Marius Romme and Sandra Escher: (Eds.), Accepting Voices (1993, second edition 1998), 258 pages, MIND Publications, London.

Marius Romme and Sandra Escher: (Eds) Understanding voices: coping with auditory hallucinations and confusing realities (1996) First published by Rijksuniversitiet Maastricht, Limburg, Holland and also new English edition, Handsell Publications

Marius Romme and Sandra Escher: Making Sense of Voices – A guide for professionals who work with voice hearers: (2000) MIND Publications

Articles/publications: General

Christine Assiz, Heard but not seen, Independent on Sunday, 6th January 1991

Baker P.K (1990): I hear voices and I’m glad to!, Critical Public Health, No. 4, 1990, pp 21-27

Baker P.K (1995) Accepting the Inner Voices, Nursing Times, Vol. 91, No 31, 1995, pp 59-61

Baker P.K (1996) The Voice Inside: a practical guide to coping: Mind Publications

Baker PK (1996) Can you hear me, a research and practice summary, Handsell UK

Barret T.R and Etheridge J.B (1992) Verbal hallucinations in Normals I: People who hear voices Applied Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 6, pp. 379-387

Benthall R.P (1990) The illusion of Reality: a review and integration of psychological research into psychotic hallucinations, Psychological Bulletin, no. 107, pp. 82-95

Bentall R.P., Claridge G.S. & Slade P.D (1988), Abandoning the Concept of “Schizophrenia”: Some Implications of Validity Arguments for Psychological Research into Psychotic Phenomena British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol.27, pp. 303-324

Bentall R.P., Claridge G.S. & Slade P.D (1989), The Multidimensional Nature of Schizotypal traits: A factor analytic study with normal subjects British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol.?

Benthall R.P., Haddock G. and Slade P.D (1994), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for persistent auditory hallucinations: from theory to therapy, Behavioral Psychotherapy No. 25, pp. 51-56

Bentall R.P., Jackson H.J & Pilgrim D. (1988), Abandoning the concept of “schizophrenia: Some implications of validity arguments for psychological research into psychotic phenomena, British Journal of Clinical Psychology, No. 27, pp. 303 – 324

Bentall R.P., Kaney S & Dewey. M (1991), Paranoia and Social Reasoning: An Attribution Theory Analysis, British Journal of Clinical Psychology, No. 30, pp.13-23

Benthall R.P and Slade P.D. (1995) Reliability of a scale for measuring disposition towards hallucinations: a brief report, Person. Individ. Diff. Vol 6, No. 4, pp. 527-529

Lisa Blackman: Hearing Voices, Embodiment and Experience (2001), Free Association Books, London

Richard Bentall & Gillian Haddock: Cognitive behaviour therapy for persistent auditory hallucinations, (1990) Behaviour Therapy 25: 51 – 66;

Chadwick P.D.J. and Birchwood M.J, (1994), Challenging the omnipotence of voices: A cognitive approach to auditory hallucinations, British Journal of Psychiatry, No. 164, pp. 190-201

Coleman R and M. Smith: Victim to Victor: working with voices (1997) Handsell, Gloucester, UK

Cullberg J., (1991) Recovered versus non-recovered schizophrenic patients among those who have had intensive psychotherapy, Acta Psychiatr Scand. Vol. 84, pp.242-245

Julie Downs, (Ed), (2001) Starting and Supporting Voices Groups: A Guide to setting up and running support groups for people who hear voices, see visions or experience tactile or other sensations. Hearing Voices Network, Manchester, England

Julie Downs, (Ed), (2001), Coping with Voices And Visions, A guide to helping people who Experience hearing voices, seeing visions, tactile or other Sensations, Hearing Voices Network, Manchester, England

B. Ensink: Confusing Realities: A study of child sexual abuse and psychiatric symptoms Amsterdam, VU University Press (1992) and also Trauma: A study of child abuse and hallucinations, in Accepting Voices Eds M. Romme and S. Escher (1993)

Eaton W.W., Romanoski A., Anthony J.C., Nestadt G. (1991) Screening for psychosis in the general population with a self report interview, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, No. 179, pp 689-693

Falloon I.R.H. and Talbot R.E. (1981) Persistent auditory hallucinations: coping mechanisms and implications for management, Psychological Medicine, No.11, pp. 329-339

John Freedland (1995), Hearing is believing, The Guardian (UK Newspaper), April 22

Mike Grierson (1991), A Report on the Manchester Hearing Voices Conference November 1990 Hearing Voices Network

Haddock G., Benthall R.P and Slade P. (1996), Psychological treatments for auditory hallucinations, focussing or distraction? pp. 45-71 in Cognitive, Behavioural Interventions with Psychotic Disorders Routledge, London Therapy, Eds. Haddock G. and Slade P

Haddock G., Bentall R.P and Slade, P.D: Psychological treatmment of chronic auditory hallucinations: two case studies (1993) Behavioral and Cognitive Psychotherapy 21: 335 – 46;

G. Haddock, P. Slade: Empowering people who hear voices in cognitive behavioral interventions with psychotic disorders, Routledge, London (1996)

Heery M. W. (1989), Inner Voice Experiences: an exploratory study of 30 cases Journal of Transpersonal Psychiatry, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 73-82

Doug Holmes Ph.D, Hearing Voices: Hillary, Angels, and O.J. to the Voice-Producing Brain Shenandoah Psychology Press, shenpsy@rica.net , 15 February, 1999

Adam James (2001), Raising our Voices: History of the Voice hearing movement, Handsell UK

J. Jaynes: The origin of consciousness and the breakdown of the bicameral mind: (1976) Houghton Mifflin, Boston

Leudar and P. Thomas: Guidelines for Establishing Pragmatic Aspects of Voices – Voice Hearer Talk (1994) Manchester: Department of Psychology, University of Manchester

I Leudar, P Thomas and M. Johnston: Self Repair for in dialogues of schizophrenics: effects of hallucinations and negative symptoms, (1992) Brain and Language 43: 487 – 511

I Leudar, P. Thomas and M. Johnston: Self monitoring in speech production: effects of verbal hallucinations and negative symptoms (1994) Psychological Medicine

I Leudar, P. Thomas, D. McNally and A. Glinsky: What can voices do with words? Pragmatics of verbal hallucinations (1997)Psychological Medicine

Ivan Leudar and Philip Thomas: ‘Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity – Studies of Verbal Hallucinations’ (2000) published by Routledge/Psychological Press.

Lineham T., (1993), Hearing is Believing, New Satatesman and Society, 26.3.93, pp.18-19 Lockhart A. R. (1975)

Mary’s Dog is an Ear Mother: Listening to the Voices of Psychosis, Psychological Perspectives Vol. 6, No 2, pp.144-160

Miller L.J., O’Connor R.N & DiPasquale T., (1993), Patients’ Attitudes Toward Hallucinations American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 150, no.4, pp. 584-588

Posey T.B. and Losch M.E. (1984), Auditory hallucinations of hearing voices in 375 normal subjects Imagination, Cognition and Personality, vol 3, no.2, pp. 99-113

Rector and Seeman (1992) Auditory Hallucinations in Women and Men, Schizophrenia Research, vol 7, pp. 233- 236

T.R. Sarbin (1990), Towards the Obsolescence of the Schizophrenia Hypothesis, The Journal of Mind and Behaviour, vol. 11. No.3/4, pp. 259-283

Siegel, Ronald: Fire in the Brain: Clinical Tales of Hallucination Dutton Books New York 1992 Sidgewick H.A. (1894)Report on the census of hallucinations, Proceedings of the Society of Psychical Research, No. 26, pp. 25-394

Slade P.D. (1993) Models of Hallucination: from theory to practice in David, A..S and Cutting, J. (Eds.) The Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia; Earlbaum, London

Slade P.D and Bentall R.P. (1988) Sensory Deception; towards a scientific analysis of hallucinations Croom Helm, London

G. Lynn Stephens, George Graham , When Self-Consciousness Breaks: Alien Voices and Inserted Thoughts (Philosophical Pychopathology Series) by Hardcover – 200 pages (May 2000) Bradford Books; ISBN 0-262-19437-6 Tarrier N., Harwood S., Yusupoff L., Beckett R. & Baker A. (1990), Coping Strategy Enhancement (CSE): Method of Treating Residual Schizophrenic Symptoms Behavioural Psychotherapy, No.18, pp. 283-293

Tien A.Y. (1991) Distributions of hallucinations in the population Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, No.26, pp. 287-292

Tiihonen, Hari, Naukkarinen, Rimon, Jousimaki and Kajola (1992) Modified Activity of Human Auditory Cortex during Auditory Hallucinations, American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 149, No.2, pp. 225-257

John Watkins: Hearing voices – A Common Human Experience: published in 1998 by Hill of Content Publishing, Melbourne, Australia, ISBN 0-85572-288-6

Yusopoff and Tarrier N. (1996) Coping strategy enhancement for persistent hallucinations and delusions, pp. 86-103, in Cognitive, Behavioural Interventions with Psychotic Disorders, Routledge, London Therapy, Eds. Haddock G. and Slade

YOU ARE NOT ALONE…….Other famous voice hearers:

Anthony Hopkins
Winston Churchill
Brian Wilson
Robert Schuman
John Forbes Nash
William Blake
Saint Joan of Arc
Socrates
Sigmund Freud
Mahatma Gandhi
Phillip K Dick
Zoe Mannamaker