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BPS Launches 'Understanding Psychosis & Schizophrenia'

BPS Launches ‘Understanding Psychosis & Schizophrenia’

December 15, 2014 | News | Share your views

On 27 November, The British Psychological Society launched a landmark report aimed at the general public on ‘Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia’. This report, that mentions peer support and the Hearing Voices Network, with its pages presents a human and contextual understanding of the diverse experiences that can be diagnosed as psychosis. Edited by Anna Cook, […]

Tags: Diagnosis, Psychosis, Recovery, Schizophrenia, Treatment

World Hearing Voices Congress 2013 - Updated Details

World Hearing Voices Congress 2013 – Updated Details

July 27, 2013 | Events, News | Share your views

The World Hearing Voices Congress is an annual event that brings together people from across the globe to explore different ways of understanding and working with voices, visions and other sensory perceptions. Following on from successful conferences in Maastricht, Nottingham, Savona (Italy) & Cardiff – the 2013 is being held in Melbourne, Australia. We know […]

Tags: Australia, Inspiration, Intervoice, Recovery, World Hearing Voices Congress

Voices Matter – New film from Open Paradigm Project

May 19, 2013 | News | 2 Comments

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 […]

Tags: Intervoice, Media, Recovery, World Hearing Voices Congress

The Hearing Voices Movement: Beyond Critiquing the Status Quo

The Hearing Voices Movement: Beyond Critiquing the Status Quo

February 1, 2013 | News | Share your views

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 […]

Tags: Critical Psychiatry, Hearing Voices Movement, Hope, Recovery, Trauma

Identifying & Working with Child Sexual Abuse

Identifying & Working with Child Sexual Abuse

November 22, 2012 | Events | Share your views

Survivors Helping Each Other & Asylum Associates present a one day conference Identifying and Working with Child Sexual Abuse Date: 21st February 2013, 9:00am – 4:30pm Venue: NCN Basford Hall College, Stockhill Lane, Nottingham, NG6 0NV Presenters: Samantha Warner, Jacqui Dillon, Bob Johnson, Maxine Robinson, Clare Shaw, Peter Bullimore, Kate Crawford & Vicky Baldwin

Tags: Conference, Healing, Nottingham, Recovery, Sexual Abuse, Trauma

How I Learned To Control and Silence My Aggressive Voice

November 8, 2012 | Personal Experiences | 18 Comments

By Stuart Cox BA MA About the Author: Stuart is an NHS office worker who started hearing an intelligent, manipulative, aggressive and bitter voice in October of 2004. The voice could read his memory and thoughts. The voice sometimes seemed to be one voice ,sometimes many voices and sometimes one voice pretending to be many […]

Tags: Empowerment, Meaning, Recovery, Testimony, Understanding

Eleanor Longden Speaks Out: TED@London

July 11, 2012 | News | 3 Comments

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 […]

Tags: Diagnosis, Eleanor Longden, Recovery, Testimony

Respite & Recovery House In The Isle of Lewis

Respite & Recovery House In The Isle of Lewis

June 12, 2012 | News | 2 Comments

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 […]

Tags: Recovery, Respite, Support, Working To Recovery

A First Class Recovery: From hopeless case to graduate

June 3, 2012 | Personal Experiences | 6 Comments

Eleanor Longden was a diagnosed schizophrenic and heard menacing voices in her head for 10 years. Now, she has fought back and has graduated with a brilliant honours degree in psychology. By Nina Lakhani, The Independent, Sunday 25th October, 2009  Eleanor Longden was revising for her final university exams in May when she was interrupted […]

Tags: Eleanor Longden, Recovery, Testimony, Trauma

Eleanor Longden speaks at Lincolnshire Recovery & Hope Forum

June 1, 2012 | Events | Share your views

Date: 18th April, 2 – 4pm (opening from 12noon to give people a chance to browse the book stall, art projects and have a cuppa). Venue: New Life Church, Mareham Lane, Sleaford The Recovery & Hope forum welcomes back Eleanor Longden, a speaker from the first Hearing Voices Conference held at Leasingham Village Hall in 2003”. […]

Tags: Eleanor Longden, Local Event, Recovery

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