The Hearing Voices Network (HVN) USA is one of over 20 nationally-based networks around the world joined by shared goals and values, incorporating a fundamental belief that there are many ways to understand the experience of hearing voices, visions, tactile sensations and other unusual or extreme experiences.
The second meeting of the International Consortium on Hallucination Research (ICHR) was hosted jointly by Charles Fernyhough, Flavie Waters and Angela Woods, and took place in Durham earlier this month. Attended by over sixty clinicians, hallucination researchers and ‘experts by experience’ from around the world, the event provided an opportunity for academics and mental health
Alyssa experienced mental health distress in her teens and after a long struggle, made the decision to live a better life. She is truly an amazing lady!
In 2012, a group of 5 (aged 13-18) young people took part in an animation workshop to develop a short stigma-busting film about their experiences of hearing ...
HVN Statement on DSM5 - hearing voices network.
I think groups help message receivers when it comes to being flexible with the concept of causation of "psychosis." One of the few rules of a Hearing Voices Network Group is that all causation explanations are allowed. I'd argue that this sets the stage for what I have come to term functional flexible theory styles. Hearing…
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One thing I've learned as a teacher is that it's ok to revisit mini-lessons that carry a lot of importance in your classroom! Earlier in the...
The people who talk back to the voices inside their heads want you to stop calling them crazy.
A man shares 30 tips that help him live with schizophrenia.
“When I was your age, I had to walk to school through the snow, barefoot. And it was uphill both ways.” How many of us heard those words, or something similar, growing up? In other words, life is hard, so suck it up. Perhaps that is why, when I was twenty-two, I was walking through
I used to hear voices a lot, but then I read up...
In the Autumn, last year, I met with a lovely young journalist called William Lee Adams in a quaint tea shop in Canterbury. Sat on the sofa, surrounded by shoppers and sightseers enjoying their lunch, we chatted for an hour or two about my experiences of hearing voices and the importance of the Hearing Voices Movement. I've done my fair share of interviews, but this one was quite different - the journalist seemed truly interested in my perspective and had quite an open mind as to how the piece he was commissioned to write would turn out. He'd done his
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The Hearing Voices Movement attempts to normalize, depathologize, and destigmatize the experience of hearing voices.
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BELLE Dingle hears the voice of her dead mum Lisa next week in Emmerdale as her psychosis returns. The vet – who is played by Eden Taylor-Draper in the ITV soap – was diagnosed wi…
