“To hear oneself speak is maybe the minimal definition of consciousness.” The Café’s website says: “The designation “Hearing Voices Café” actually applies to every well-patronised coffee shop. At the same time, the phrase “hearing voices” is also associated with the…
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A UK trial has found that confronting an avatar on a computer screen helped people who hear voices to cope better with these auditory hallucinations. Patients who received this therapy became less distressed and heard voices less often compared with…
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This 5 minute film is about the compassionate approach to relating with voices … a project led by Dr Charlie Heriot-Maitland , in collaboration with Kate Anderson, independent animation director. The project is part of the Cultural Institute at King’s College Collaborative Innovation Scheme for Early Career Researchers:…
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This excellent Horizon programme (BBC2) follows people living with voices, hallucinations and paranoia to explore the causes. For hundreds of years, psychiatry has treated voices and hallucinations as an enemy – regarding them as ‘insanity’ or ‘madness’ and seeing…
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