Tag: hearing voices movement
Interview: Moving Toward a Human Rights Approach to Student Mental Health
Psychologist Jim Probert of the University of Florida's student counseling center explains why "Our goal is not to take the steering wheel out of the person's hands."
Four Decades of Allying to Make Safe Spaces for All Voices:...
Please come join us for our discussion on June 5 with Caroline Mazel-Carlton, Cindy Marty Hadge, Ronda Speight, Rufus May, Paul Baker, and Chackupurackal Mathai. This âDialogue in a Time of Crisisâ Town Hall will explore how the Hearing Voices Movement, like Open Dialogue, has been building the resources the world needs at this pivotal moment of in our collective history.
Psychology is Not What You Think: An Interview with Critical Psychologist...
MIAâs Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Ian Parker about critical psychology, discourse and political action, and whether psychology has anything left to offer.
Hearing Voices Network Launches Family & Friends Support Group
One of the HVN's fundamental principles is that "the person having these experiences is in the best position to decide or discover what they mean" and thus each person must "not try to speak for" another. The challenge for a family group will likely be for members to move past speaking about our loved ones to find or imagine the space where we ourselves are liberated.
Valuing Posttraumatic Growth in Psychosis
Individuals who experience psychosis can also experience posttraumatic growth, which can be a central component of the recovery paradigm.
On Voice Hearing Simulations: Why They Should Be (Mostly) Banned
Voice hearing simulation exercises are designed to make participants feel frightened, overwhelmed, and unable to function. They donât do anything to teach how people who hear voices work through that, the many effective strategies they use, or any of the benefits that some come to find in this way of being in the world.
Normalizing the Voices in Our Heads
From CFJC Today: "Hearing voices is often regarded as a sign of mental illness. But maybe voices are just part of a spectrum.
Professor T....
Fighting for the Freedom to Hear Voices
We were caught in a tug of war. They wanted my voices gone. I was not going to let go of my voices, my confidants and protectors, regardless of what they did to me. We have the right to hear voices and no longer be hidden away in the attic of taboo and misunderstood experiences. The freedom to hear voices is truly a fundamental human right.
Launch of Online Forum for Young People Who Hear Voices
I am very excited to announce that Voice Collective, a UK-based project supporting children and young people who see, hear or sense things others donât, has launched the first-ever online forum dedicated to supporting young people who hear voices, as well as their parents, carers and supporters.
New Grant Boosts Hearing Voices Approach in USA
From The Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care: The Hearing Voices Research and Development Fund has been awarded a $300,000 grant to expand their...
In Search of an Evidence-based Role for Psychiatry
A dilemma for all of us who are struggling to broaden our understanding of human distress beyond simplistic, pessimistic, bio-genetic ideology, and to improve our mental health services accordingly, is whether or not to soften our criticisms of psychiatry in the hope of reaching those psychiatrists whose minds are not totally closed. But doing so rests on the assumption that change can come from within the profession. For the last few decades examples of that are few and far between.
The Future of Mental Health Interview Series: Eleanor Longden
The following interview with Eleanor Longden, who is well known for her Ted Talk and her activism in the psychiatric survivor movement, is part of a âfuture of mental healthâ interview series that Iâm currently conducting on my Psychology Today blog Rethinking Mental Health. To see the full interview roster, please visit
http://ericmaisel.com/interview-series.
False Arguments, Part 3: Why Do People Hear Voices? (And Why...
The question âwhy do people hear voices?â tends to rise up after weâve offered challenges to medicalized perspectives. Most often, this question does not come from people who hear voices themselves, but from people in provider roles, and â with the greatest frequency â from parents. As a parent myself, I understand the desperation to make things âokayâ for one's child. I can empathize deeply with the sense of fight and the search for answers. But what if itâs the wrong question entirely? What if focusing in on âwhyâ actually pulls us further and further away from the âhelpingâ that we most aim to find?
Becoming a Hearing Voices Facilitator
For three days in December, I was fortunate enough to attend the Hearing Voices Facilitator Training held in Portland, OR. This training expanded my understanding of the voice hearing experience and equipped me with a number of tools to use in facilitating hearing voices support groups. Grounded in a feeling of community, the training was dynamic, emotionally therapeutic, and educational all at the same time â a crystal clear example of how support groups themselves might manifest in the lives of their members.
Study Examines Womenâs Experiences of Hearing Voices
An international group of researchers from multiple disciplines has published a historical, qualitative, and quantitative investigation into voice-hearing in women. The interdisciplinary project, freely available from Frontiers in Psychiatry, explores how sexism, exploitation, and oppression bear on womenâsâ experiences of hearing voices.
Hearing Voices, Emancipation, Shamanism and CBT: Thoughts After Douglas Turkington’s Training
When Doug Turkington, a UK psychiatrist, first announced to his colleagues that he wanted to help people with psychotic experiences by talking to them, he was told by some that this would just make them worse, and by others that this would be a risk to his own mental health, and would probably cause him to become psychotic! Fortunately, he didnât believe either group, and in the following decades he went on to be a leading researcher and educator about talking to people within the method called CBT for psychosis.