hearing voices
We launched a study of music and song writing with people who hear voices that others don’t. … I want to share some quotes from our participants…
During COVID we launched a study of music and song writing with people who hear voices that others don’t. It is sponsored by NIMH and Kennedy Center. I want to share some quotes from our participants…🧵— Phil Corlett (@PhilCorlett1) March 22, 2023 You…
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Study Highlights Benefits of Non-Medical Approaches to Voice Hearing
This article by Ashley Bobak has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “New research supports a new, dialogic, non-medicalized approach to helping people who hear upsetting voices. The “ Talking with Voices ” (TwV) approach, which frames voice hearing relationally and understands…
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The helpful delusion: Evidence is growing that mental illness is more than dysfunction, with enormous implications for treatment
Do delusions have and give meaning?
This paper , co-authored by Rosa Ritunnano and Lisa Bortolotti, has been published in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. The abstract says: “Delusions are often portrayed as paradigmatic instances of incomprehensibility and meaninglessness. Here we investigate the relationship between delusions and…
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Skepticism, Psychosis, and Hallucinations as Evidence for Our Beliefs
The Voices Within – the History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves
Healing Voices
“Healing Voices” is a documentary directed by PJ Moynihan and co-produced by PJ Moynihan and Oryx Cohen. It comes from Digital Eyes Film and is described as: “… an award-winning documentary which explores the experiences commonly labeled as ‘psychosis’ in…
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Beyond Possible: How the Hearing Voices Approach Transforms Lives
This video – see below – comes from the American-based Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care , who say: “Since 2012, Open Excellence donors have been sharing the hope of the Hearing Voices approach, funding research and training new support group facilitators across the United States…
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Listening to the Voices People Hear: Auditory Hallucinations Beyond a Diagnostic Framework
This research paper has been written by Dr. Eleanor Longden and published in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. The abstract cited in ResearchGate says: “While voice hearing (auditory verbal hallucinations) is closely allied with psychosis/schizophrenia, it is well-established that the experience is…
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