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Hearing Voices Movement
Movement supporting people who hear voices
Movement supporting people who hear voices
- Auditory hallucination
- Critical Psychiatry Network
- Diagnosis of schizophrenia
- Fishers of men
- Hearing Voices Network
- Interpretation of Schizophrenia
- Neurodiversity
- Peer support
- Psychiatric survivors movement
- Recovery approach
- Self-help groups for mental health
- Trauma model of mental disorders
References
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**Voice Hearing and Life Events**
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**Working With Voices**
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**Hearing Voices Groups**
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## References
1. McCarthy-Jones, Simon. (2012). ["Hearing voices: the histories, causes, and meanings of auditory verbal hallucinations"](https://archive.org/details/hearingvoiceshis00mcca_347). *[[Cambridge University Press]]*.
2. (2021-03-24). ["The voice in your head"](https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2021/03/voice-your-head).
3. (2014). ["Patsy Hague: co-founder"](http://www.intervoiceonline.org/about-intervoice/patsy-hague-co-founder). *The International Hearing Voices Network*.
4. (1 June 2007). "Daring to talk back: Is the experience of hearing voices ordinary or extraordinary?". *[[Mental Health Practice]]*.
5. (October 2013). "Editorial: special edition: voices in a positive light". *Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches*.
6. (October 1998). "Auditory hallucinations: a comparison between patients and nonpatients". *[[Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease]]*.
7. Johnstone, Lucy. (2011). "Psychosis as a personal crisis: an experience based approach". *Routledge for The International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and other pychoses (ISPS)*.
8. (July 1992). "Coping with hearing voices: an emancipatory approach". *[[British Journal of Clinical Psychology]]*.
9. (2007). "The harmful concept of Schizophrenia: outline for a more helpful and cause related alternative". *Mental Health Nursing: The Journal of the Community Psychiatric Nurses Association*.
10. Escher S. Romme M. The Hearing Voices Movement, Chapter 28 page 385 in "Hallucinations" by Jan Dirk Blom and Iris E.C. Sommer, Editors Springer, New York; Dordrecht; Heidelberg; London (2012).
11. Adam James (201) Raising Our Voices: An Account of the Hearing Voices Movement, Handsell Publishing (2001)
12. ["Hearing Voices Groups"](https://understandingvoices.com/working-with-voices/peer-support/hearing-voices-groups/).
13. ["Intervoice Networks and Groups"](https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1ADB_BK8VOAmTO2AK8KkmO0NVLqI).
14. (2025-03-03). ["Our History – Intervoice"](https://www.intervoiceonline.org/about-us/our-history).
15. Corstens, Dirk. (2016). ["Recovery, Discovery and Revolution: The Work of Intervoice and the Hearing Voices Movement"](https://www.academia.edu/20322180).
16. (2025-03-03). ["2009 Congress: Maastricht – Intervoice"](https://www.intervoiceonline.org/congress/2009-maastricht).
17. ["The Melbourne Hearing Voices Declaration"](http://ds1iq4mk21n08.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/VV-Melbourne-Hearing-Voices-Declaration-FINAL.pdf). *The World Hearing Voices Congress 2013*.
18. (October 2014). ["6th World Hearing Voices Congress: Declaration"](http://hearingvoicescymru.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/declaration.pdf).
19. (July 2014). "Emerging perspectives from the Hearing Voices Movement: implications for research and practice". *[[Schizophrenia Bulletin]]*.
20. (25 August 2025). ["HVN Intro Booklet"](https://www.hearing-voices.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/HVN-Intro-Booklet_webshare.pdf).
21. (2009). "Living with voices: 50 stories of recovery". *PCCS Books in association with Birmingham City University*.
22. (October 2013). "The recovery process with hearing voices: accepting as well as exploring their emotional background through a supported process". *Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches*.
23. Romme, Marius A.J.. (2011). "Psychosis as a personal crisis: an experience based approach". *Routledge for The International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and other pychoses (ISPS)*.
24. (14 August 2015). "Can we respond mindfully to distressing voices? A systematic review of evidence for engagement, acceptability, effectiveness and mechanisms of change for mindfulness-based interventions for people distressed by hearing voices". *[[Frontiers in Psychology]]*.
25. (July 2009). ["Mindfulness groups for distressing voices and paranoia: a replication and randomized feasibility trial"](http://www.bangor.ac.uk/mindfulness/documents/StephanieHughes.pdf). *Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy*.
26. (July 2014). ["Psychological therapies for auditory hallucinations (voices): current status and key directions for future research"](http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/71499/1/Schizophr_Bull_2014_Thomas_S202_12.pdf). *[[Schizophrenia Bulletin]]*.
27. (2012). "Talking with voices: Exploring what is expressed by the voices people hear". *Psychosis*.
28. (2007). "Cognitive behavioural therapy group work with voice hearers. Part 2". *Br J Nurs*.
29. (Jul 2011). "A review of hearing voices groups: evidence and mechanisms of change". *Clin Psychol Rev*.
30. Escher, Sandra. (2011). "Psychosis as a personal crisis: an experience based approach". *Routledge for The International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and other pychoses (ISPS)*.
31. (March 2010). "Hearing voices and listening to what they say: the importance of voice content in understanding and working with distressing voices". *[[Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease]]*.
32. (2008). "Psychosis, trauma and dissociation: emerging perspectives on severe psychopathology". *[[Wiley-Blackwell]]*.
33. (2011). "Wellness recovery action plan (WRAP)". *Peach Press*.
34. (2000). "Making sense of voices: the mental health professional's guide to working with voice-hearers". *Mind Publications*.
35. (1992). "Accepting voices". *Mind Publications*.
36. (2000). "Hearing voices and listening to those that hear them". *Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing*.
37. Heard but not seen (1990). Romme, M.A.J. & Escher, A.D.M.A.C. Open Mind No 49, 16-18
38. 'You don't talk about the voices': voice hearers and community mental health nurses talk about responding to voice hearing experiences. Coffey M, Hewitt J. J Clin Nurs. 2008 Jun;17(12):1591-600.
39. Jones M, Coffey M. Voice hearing: a secondary analysis of talk by people who hear voices. Int J Ment Health Nurs. 2012 Feb;21(1):50-9.
40. England M. Accuracy of nurses' perceptions of voice hearing and psychiatric symptoms. J Adv Nurs. 2007 Apr;58(2):130-9.
41. The anatomy of hallucinations. Johnson, Fred H. Oxford, England: Nelson-Hall. (1978). xvi 239 pp.
42. M. Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason trans. by R. Howard, (London: Tavistock, 1965) - abridged; History of Madness ed. Jean Khalfa, trans. Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa, (London: Routledge, 2006)
43. (1992). "Accepting voices". *Mind Publications*.
44. (1989). "Hearing voices". *[[Schizophrenia Bulletin]]*.
45. (8 December 2002). "Formation of delusional ideation in adolescents hearing voices: a prospective study". *[[American Journal of Medical Genetics*.
46. (September 2002). "Independent course of childhood auditory hallucinations: a sequential 3-year follow-up study". *[[British Journal of Psychiatry]]*.
47. (July 2004). "Determinants of outcome in the pathways through care for children hearing voices". *[[International Journal of Social Welfare]]*.
48. Tien, Allen Y.. (November 1991). "Distributions of hallucinations in the population". *Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology*.
49. (1991). "Screening for psychosis in the general population with a self-report interview". *[[Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease]]*.
50. (July 2009). ["Hearing voices in a non-psychiatric population"](http://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/files/17448341/JonesS1352465810000172a.pdf). *Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy*.
51. (2011). "The prevalence of voice-hearers in the general population: A literature review". *[[Journal of Mental Health]]*.
52. (1998). "Prevalence of psychotic disorder in the general population: results from the Netherlands mental health survey and incidence study". *Social Psychiatry & Epidemiology*.
53. (2013). "The Neuroscience of hallucinations".
54. Sorrell E, Hayward M, Meddings, Interpersonal processes and hearing voices: a study of the association between relating to voices and distress in clinical and non-clinical hearers. S. Behav Cogn Psychother. 2010 Mar;38(2)
55. <ref>The accepting and making sense of hearing voices approach. (2006) Romme Marius and Escher Sandra
56. (November 2011). "Dissociation, trauma, and the role of lived experience: toward a new conceptualization of voice hearing". *Psychological Bulletin*.
57. (January 2008). "Auditory hallucinations: psychotic symptom or dissociative experience?". *[[Journal of Psychological Trauma]]*.
58. Romme, Marius AJ, and Sandra DM Escher. "Trauma and hearing voices." Trauma and psychosis: New directions for theory and therapy (2006): 162-191.
59. (2003). "Psychological trauma and psychosis: another reason why people diagnosed schizophrenic must be offered psychological therapies". *[[Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry]]*.
60. (November 2005). ["Childhood trauma, psychosis and schizophrenia: a literature review with theoretical and clinical implications"](https://semanticscholar.org/paper/9a3e7cb84cf29f4a68c26459d152797d12974704). *[[Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica]]*.
61. Personal links between trauma, distorted emotions and hearing voices (2011) Romme Marius, Psychosis as a personal crisis: an experienced based approach Romme and Escher eds. Routledge
62. Personal history and Hearing voices (2010) Romme Marius and Escher Sandra, Hallucinations: A quide to treatment and management. Frank Leroi and Andre Aleman (eds) Oxford University press Oxford
63. (Oct 2008). ["The relationship between trauma and beliefs about hearing voices: a study of psychiatric and non-psychiatric voice hearers"](http://orca.cf.ac.uk/28459/1/Andrew%202008.pdf). *Psychol Med*.
64. (2004). "Choices for voices: A voice hearer's perspective on hearing voices". *Cognitive Neuropsychiatry*.
65. ["Meet The Board"](https://www.intervoiceonline.org/about-us/the-board#content).
66. ["World Map of Hearing Voices Groups and Networks"](http://hearingvoicescymru.org/about-2/world-map-of-hearing-voices-groups-and-networks).
67. Meddings, Sara. (2004). "Are hearing voices groups effective? A preliminary evaluation". *Unpublished*.
68. Anna Ruddlea, Oliver Mason, Til Wykes, A review of hearing voices groups: Evidence and mechanisms of change, Clinical Psychology Review Volume 31, Issue 5, July 2011, Pages 757–766, 2011)
69. (2011). "Psychosis as a personal crisis: an experience based approach". *Routledge for The International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and other pychoses (ISPS)*.
70. (2000). "Challenging the omnipotence of voices: group cognitive behavior therapy for voices". *Behaviour Research and Therapy*.
71. (2005). "Hungry researchers: The tensions and dilemmas of developing an emancipatory research project with members of a hearing voices group". *Journal of Social Work Practice*.
72. ["International Research Committee"](http://www.intervoiceonline.org/research-2/international-research-committee).
73. ["Maastricht Approach"](http://www.dirkcorstens.com/maastrichtapproach).
74. ["Voice hearers' experiences of the Making Sense of Voices approach in an NHS setting"](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338720100).
75. Khan, Fauzia. (27 September 2021). ["'These ideas have enabled people to be more accepting and open about voice-hearing experiences'"](https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/these-ideas-have-enabled-people-be-more-accepting-and-open-about-voice-hearing).
76. (2023-11-07). "Facilitating a hearing voices group on acute and psychiatric intensive care units to promote acceptance and hope: preliminary learning and reflections". *Mental Health and Social Inclusion*.
77. (2025). "Online Hearing Voices Peer Support Groups: Assessing Feasibility and Acceptability Within UK National Health Service Settings". *Schizophrenia Bulletin Open*.
78. Shapiro, Samantha M.. (2017-01-16). ["The Radical Movement Redefining Schizophrenia"](https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/16/listen-to-the-voices-in-your-head/).
79. (2014). ["A case series exploring possible predictors and mechanisms of change in hearing voices groups"](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2044-8341.2012.02074.x). *Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice*.
80. (2012). ["Voice hearing in a biographical context: A model for formulating the relationship between voices and life history"](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17522439.2011.596566). *Psychosis*.
81. (2013). ["Reconciling Recovery and Psychiatry: Response to Open Letter"](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/saving-normal/201309/reconciling-recovery-and-psychiatry-response-open-letter).
82. (2017). ["Are "Hearing Voices Groups" a Help or Harm?"](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psych-unseen/201709/are-hearing-voices-groups-a-help-or-harm).
83. (2013-09-14). ["Intervoice sends an open letter to Prof. Allen Frances"](https://www.intervoiceonline.org/3946/blog/news/allen-frances.html).
84. (2014). ["A case series exploring possible predictors and mechanisms of change in hearing voices groups"](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2044-8341.2012.02074.x). *Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice*.
85. Lee Adams, William. (21 February 2008). ["The Listening Cure"](https://time.com/archive/6683792/the-listening-cure/).
86. (2017-12-01). "The hearing voices network: initial lessons and future directions for mental health professionals and Systems of Care". *Psychiatric Quarterly*.
87. (2015-08-31). ["Open Letter to Huffington Post"](https://www.hearingvoicesnyc.org/2015/08/).
88. Ronald W. Pies, M. D.. (2017-09-04). ["Hearing Voices and Psychiatry's (Real) Medical Model"](https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/hearing-voices-and-psychiatrys-real-medical-model). *Psychiatric Times*.
89. (2022-04-03). "Mental health professionals' attitudes and knowledge about hearing voices groups". *Psychosis*.
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