Current material about the topic
2025
Short film - Hearing Voices and Recovery. Some Insights from the Hearing Voices Movement.
The film introduces constructive, normalising and depathologising approaches to hearing voices and similar experiences, which continue to only slowly be known and/or practised only in some psychiatric mainstream services. The recordings were made as a side event during the World Hearing Voices Congress 2023 in Paris with some of the many people who respectively have been active for many years within the international Hearing Voices Movement. One of the many defining features of the international Hearing Voices Movement is the muliptlicity of approaches and views on the topic. Accordingly, the views introduced in this short film first and foremost only express some of the experiences and insights of those interviewed.
Please note: many practical and theoretical insights hard won in the context of the Hearing Voices Movement have by now been confirmed by specialised hearing voices research (compare e.g. Parker et al., 2021 - “The Practical Handbook of Hearing Voices. Therapeutic and Creative Approaches."). As a result it is now clear that the long held - often until today - opinion within psychiatric contexts, that hearing voices in particular forms is a sign of specific illnesses or diagnoses, can no longer stand. Instead, a positive accepting approach to voices and similar experiences is now needed.
2021
The Practical Handbook of Hearing Voices: Therapeutic and creative approaches
Autoren: Isla Parker Dr Joachim Schnackenberg Mark Hopfenbeck
Hearing voices, seeing visions and similar out-of-the-ordinary experiences have long intrigued and mystified humankind. The dominant scientific and medical understandings of these phenomena tend to problematise them. This ground-breaking book builds on the work of the Hearing Voices Movement and of the researchers Marius Romme and Sandra Escher in challenging this perception. The book is a collection of chapters by voice hearers, mental health professionals and researchers describing a myriad of therapeutic and creative approaches and strategies that people find helpful in relating to voices when they find them distressing.