Resources
This page provides links and downloads of materials which may be useful to voice hearers or to facilitators running hearing voices groups. We will continue to add new resources to this page over time.
General Information about Hearing Voices
Hearing Voices Info Booklet
by the Hearing Voices Network Australia (HVNA). A great collection of articles and information about the network, hearing voices, and groups.
Hearing Voices Coping Strategies
by HVNA. Useful for individuals, and as a tool to review in group settings. Prints on A3 paper.
A great selection of books and DVDs about hearing voices at the Working To Recovery online store
The Maastricht Interview
A great resource developed by Prof. Marius Romme and Sandra Escher which can be used to help voice hearers profile and better understand their voice hearing experience. Ideal for use in one-on-one work, and is usually completed over several sessions (3 - 10). The outcomes of the interview belong to the voice hearer, not the worker. People often
find a new insight into their voices after completing the interview.
Info pack for clinicians and managers. Voices Vic has prepared this information pack for anyone considering starting a group in their organisation, but who first wishes to understand the evidence base for the Hearing Voices approach, read a review of risks and understand the financial requirements for starting a group. We acknowledge Rebecca Ponchard and Dr Neil Thomas for their assistance in developing this pack.
Starting a Hearing Voices Group? Some Resources to Help...
Hearing Voices Group Poster. Customise this poster and use to promote your new Hearing Voices Group.
Hearing Voices Groups Brochure (Publisher). Customise the back page of this brochure with your own/organisational information, and use to promote what happens in a Hearing Voices Group. Note the file is created in MS Publisher and is quite large. If you do not want to customise the brochure, click here to download a PDF version.
We will be adding some 'fact sheets' to this page soon.
Hearing Voices Books for Sale
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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)
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Working with Voices II: Victim to Victor
Ron Coleman & Mike Smith
$28
(plus postage)
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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.
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Living with Voices: 50 Stories of Recovery
Prof. Marius Romme, Dr Sandra Escher, Jacqui Dillon, Dr Dirk Corstens & Prof. Mervyn Morris
$50
(plus postage)
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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.
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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.
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