Press Release: HVN Launches Debate on DSM 5
It’s the Bad Things that Happen to you that can Drive you Crazy! The Hearing Voices Network in England has issued a position statement on DSM 5 and the wide issue of psychiatric diagnoses following last week’s debate on the need for a new paradigm in mental health services, reported largely as a ‘turf war’ [...Read more]
Voices Matter – New film from Open Paradigm Project
Here is what ‘Mad In America’ say about this Open Paradigm feature: “Voices Matter” is the first full production to emerge from the Open Paradigm Project, a collective dedicated to heeding the voices and perspectives that accompany the diverse and changing realities we all share. This documentary about the Hearing Voices Movement was filmed over [...Read more]
Research Request: Do you see visions?
Please note: The following request is posted on behalf of the researchers. To find out more about the study, please contact them directly. Are you, or is someone you know, experiencing visions/visual hallucinations? Hi Everyone Our names are Selina Warlow, Clara Strauss and Jo Billings and we are members of a research group based at [...Read more]
11 May: Voice Collective in the North East
Please note: The following is from Voice Collective, a London-wide project supporting children and young people who hear voices. Please contact them directly to ask about this event as HVN are not running it ourselves. Thank you. After lots of enquiries from young people in the North East, Voice Collective are holding an ‘Open Event’ [...Read more]
The Hearing Voices Movement: Beyond Critiquing the Status Quo
By Jacqui Dillon Please note: The following article was written by Jacqui Dillon for Mad In America (www.madinamerica.com) on January 10, 2013. I am thrilled to have been invited to write about the important and innovative work of the Hearing Voices Movement alongside so many eminent colleagues, critical thinkers and activists working together to bring [...Read more]
Happy World Hearing Voices Day!
World Hearing Voices Day celebrates hearing voices as part of the diversity of human experience, increasing awareness of the fact that you can hear voices and be healthy. It challenges the negative attitudes towards people who hear voices and the incorrect assumption that hearing voices, in itself, is a sign of illness. Every year for [...Read more]
Job Opportunities: London Hearing Voices & Paranoia Projects
Mind in Camden’s London Hearing Voices & Paranoia Projects are recruiting for new part time development workers. The first opportunity is to work for 14 hours per week on their Voice Collective (young people’s) project. The second is to work for 21 hours per week on the London Paranoia Groups Project. If you, or someone [...Read more]
Young People & Hearing Voices: Animation
A Little Insight Voice Collective, a London-wide project supporting children and young people who hear voices, see visions or have other unusual perceptions, have released a brand new animation to challenge stigma. Watch this clip below:
Eleanor Longden Speaks Out: TED@London
Eleanor Longden, speaking live at the TED@London Talent Search, explains how she has transformed her relationship with her voices and taken control of her life. In this powerful short clip, Eleanor explains how a diagnosis of schizophrenia and the view of voices as a symptom led her to take an ‘agressive stance’ against her own [...Read more]
Respite & Recovery House In The Isle of Lewis
Working to Recovery have recently launched free personalised respite and recovery breaks for people who want to engage with their emotional, spiritual and mental health issues in a positive way. Karen Taylor and Ron Coleman, have years of experience in helping people pursue their own recovery agendas and are funding this initiative through their own means (assisted [...Read more]
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