Voices & Visions in The News
Nikki talking about Hearing Voices on Sky News
Nikki, a participant in our recent artistic collaboration with Wellcome Collection, courageously shared some of her own experiences of hearing voices that other people can’t on Sky News. Talking out about voices and visions is no easy feat, but Nikki shows that it is possible to overcome difficult experiences and express them. We hope that seeing […]
Learning to Live with the Voices in Your Head
Some experts think the problem is how doctors and society treat people who hear things, not the voices themselves. Roc Morin in The Atlantic, 5 November 2014 “The first time that I heard this voice, I was very much frightened,” the prisoner testified. “When I heard it for the third time, I recognized that it was the […]
Voice Collective on BBC London
In the run up to the 2011 BBC Children In Need appeal, Voice Collective was featured on BBC London News. ‘Ashley’ one of the young people who use our group and her mother share their experiences of voices, accessing Voice Collective and attending the group at Anna Freud Centre. Rachel, the project manager, gives a […]
Many Children ‘Hear Voices’; Most Aren’t Bothered
Nearly 1 in 10 seven- to eight-year-olds hears voices that aren’t really there, according to a new study By Reuters Health, Monday 25th January, 2010, http://tinyurl.com/reutersvoices But most children who hear voices don’t find them troubling or disruptive to their thinking, the study team found. “These voices in general have a limited impact in daily life,” […]
A First Class Recovery: From hopeless case to graduate
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 by […]
Listening Cure
Hearing voices is a relatively common – and taboo – phenomenon in children and can trigger educational difficulties, but this could change with the publication of a groundbreaking study in Holland. By David Batty, The Guardian, Friday 16 November, 2001 Harry squinted at his friends’ darkened faces. “Do you think I should have told them […]
Silencing Unwelcome Voices In Children
A psychosocial therapist in Holland has adapted an innovative approach to voice hearing to help very young children dispel the imaginary friends that become realistic foes. By David Batty, Thursday November 22, 2001, The Guardian Jeanette Woolthuis, Jeanette Woolthuis, the former chair of Resonance, the National Dutch hearing voices network, has been training as a […]
She Was Like A Personal Coach
An account of hearing voices as a child By David Batty, Friday November 16 2001, SocietyGuardian.co.uk Janneke, from Heerhugowaard in northern Holland, began to hear five male voices in January 1993. They pestered and threatened her, giving her strange commands. They’d say if I didn’t count trees – and I hate maths – my parents […]
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