Resources

Hearing Voices: A Common Human Experience

John Watkins

$25

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Hearing Voices ventures beyond conventional psychiatric therapies whose sole aim is symptom eradication to explore ways of working creatively with voices and other inner experiences to foster personal growth, healing and recovery. Includes detailed descriptions of voice hearing experiences, an overview of theories regarding their origin, and practical strategies for coping with unwanted voices. Of value to voice hearers and those wishing to acquire a deeper understanding of this intriguing phenomenon.

“A beautiful book which will be very valuable for people hearing voices”
– Professor Marius Romme (co-founder, Hearing Voices Movement)

“One of the most sensitively thought-through pieces of

writing on voice hearing.”
– Ron Coleman (former national co-ordinator, Hearing Voices Network)

Working with Voices II: Victim to Victor

Ron Coleman & Mike Smith

$28

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Foreword, by Professor Marius Romme & Sandra Escher:

This book is a great achievement in developing a change in attitude and approach towards hearing voices.  This book is for voice hearers and the people they select to support them.  It will enable people who have difficulties to cope with their voices and to discover different sides to their voices.  Following a systematic approach it will unfold their relation with the voices and by doing so will stimulate them to acquire more effective ways of coping.  Most important in this process, and well stimulated in this workbook, is to take ownership of the experience from writing one's own life history in relation to one's voices.

Living with Voices: 50 Stories of Recovery

Prof. Marius Romme, Dr Sandra Escher, Jacqui Dillon, Dr Dirk Corstens & Prof. Mervyn Morris

$50

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Marius Romme and Sandra Escher's new analysis of the hearing voices experience outside of the illness model has resulted in accepting and making sense of voices.

This study of 50 stories forms the evidence for this successful new approach to working with voice hearers.

"Marius Romme and Sandra Escher have revolutionised our understanding of voice hearing, and their work has led to a radical new way of helping people who have had this type of experience.  In this timely, accessible and important book, they bring together the lessons they have learnt over more than two decades, and provide an opportunity for 50 voice hearers from across the world to tell

us their stories.

This is essential reading for mental health workers of all professions, which challenges conventional thinking, empowers mental health service users, and looks forward to a more humane

approach to psychiatric care."

- Richard Bentall, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Bangor University, Wales.

The Voice Inside:  A Practical Guide for and About People Who Hear Voices

Paul Baker

(with contributions from Marius Romme, Sandra Escher & Ron Coleman)

$28

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This handbook is an updated and combined version of two previously published booklets by Paul Baker about hearing voices (The Voice Inside and Can Your Hear Me) with new sections on talking to voices, recovery practice, hearing voices and schizophrenia, children and hearing voices.

Paul Baker was one of the founding members of the Hearing Voices Network in England and is currently the coordinator of INTERVOICE, the influential coordinating body for the international hearing voices movement. Paul is a community development and group worker who has worked in the community sector for the last 30 years.